hauska
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The word possibly originally meant "wasteful, diminishing, useless" (in which case, compare hupa for semantic shift), in which case it might be related to haaska and derived from haja-.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈhɑu̯skɑ/, [ˈhɑ̝u̯s̠kɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -ɑuskɑ
- Syllabification(key): haus‧ka
- Hyphenation(key): haus‧ka
Adjective
[edit]hauska (comparative hauskempi, superlative hauskin)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of hauska (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | hauska | hauskat | |
| genitive | hauskan | hauskojen | |
| partitive | hauskaa | hauskoja | |
| illative | hauskaan | hauskoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | hauska | hauskat | |
| accusative | nom. | hauska | hauskat |
| gen. | hauskan | ||
| genitive | hauskan | hauskojen hauskain rare | |
| partitive | hauskaa | hauskoja | |
| inessive | hauskassa | hauskoissa | |
| elative | hauskasta | hauskoista | |
| illative | hauskaan | hauskoihin | |
| adessive | hauskalla | hauskoilla | |
| ablative | hauskalta | hauskoilta | |
| allative | hauskalle | hauskoille | |
| essive | hauskana | hauskoina | |
| translative | hauskaksi | hauskoiksi | |
| abessive | hauskatta | hauskoitta | |
| instructive | — | hauskoin | |
| comitative | — | hauskoine | |
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “hauska”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023