kesämökki
Finnish
A Swedish summer cottage
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkesæˌmøkːi/
- Hyphenation: ke‧sä‧mök‧ki
Noun
kesämökki
- summer home; summerhouse, summer house (UK); cabin, chalet (US); camp (NY); summer cottage (house used as vacation home during the summer, often located near a body of water)
- country house (weekend and holiday residence, located outside of urban areas, used as a retreat from city life)
- vacation home (US), holiday home (UK) (building or piece of property used as a secondary residence during vacations)
Usage notes
- The Finnish term kesämökki is habitually translated as "summer cottage" into English. While completetely understandable, this term does not appear to be widely used in English-speaking countries.
- A "vacation home" can also refer to a condo that is used during holidays.
Declension
| Inflection of kesämökki (Kotus type 5/risti, kk-k gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | kesämökki | kesämökit | |
| genitive | kesämökin | kesämökkien | |
| partitive | kesämökkiä | kesämökkejä | |
| illative | kesämökkiin | kesämökkeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | kesämökki | kesämökit | |
| accusative | nom. | kesämökki | kesämökit |
| gen. | kesämökin | ||
| genitive | kesämökin | kesämökkien | |
| partitive | kesämökkiä | kesämökkejä | |
| inessive | kesämökissä | kesämökeissä | |
| elative | kesämökistä | kesämökeistä | |
| illative | kesämökkiin | kesämökkeihin | |
| adessive | kesämökillä | kesämökeillä | |
| ablative | kesämökiltä | kesämökeiltä | |
| allative | kesämökille | kesämökeille | |
| essive | kesämökkinä | kesämökkeinä | |
| translative | kesämökiksi | kesämökeiksi | |
| instructive | — | kesämökein | |
| abessive | kesämökittä | kesämökeittä | |
| comitative | — | kesämökkeineen | |
Synonyms
- (summer cottage): mökki
- (vacation home): loma-asunto, vapaa-ajan asunto
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