pituinen
Finnish
Adjective
pituinen (not comparable)
- long; tall (in case of humans)
- Olen 175 senttimetrin pituinen. / Olen 175 senttimetriä pitkä.
- I'm 5 feet 10 inches tall.
- Minkä pituinen on matka Helsingistä Utsjoelle? / Kuinka pitkä matka on Helsingistä Utsjoelle?
- How long is the trip from Helsinki to Utsjoki? / How long is it from Helsinki to Utsjoki?
- Olen saman pituinen kuin sinä. / Olen sinun pituisesi. / Olen yhtä pitkä kuin sinä.
- I'm of the same height as you. / I'm of your height. / I'm as tall as you.
Usage notes
- Always used with a preceding attribute or interrogative pronoun in genitive.
- The structure genitive + pituinen is usually interchangeable with partitive + pitkä (see usage examples above).
Declension
| Inflection of pituinen (Kotus type 38/nainen, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | pituinen | pituiset | |
| genitive | pituisen | pituisten pituisien | |
| partitive | pituista | pituisia | |
| illative | pituiseen | pituisiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | pituinen | pituiset | |
| accusative | nom. | pituinen | pituiset |
| gen. | pituisen | ||
| genitive | pituisen | pituisten pituisien | |
| partitive | pituista | pituisia | |
| inessive | pituisessa | pituisissa | |
| elative | pituisesta | pituisista | |
| illative | pituiseen | pituisiin | |
| adessive | pituisella | pituisilla | |
| ablative | pituiselta | pituisilta | |
| allative | pituiselle | pituisille | |
| essive | pituisena | pituisina | |
| translative | pituiseksi | pituisiksi | |
| instructive | — | pituisin | |
| abessive | pituisetta | pituisitta | |
| comitative | — | pituisine | |
Derived terms
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