-lainen
Määritelmät
- Combined with a place name, forms the noun for the inhabitant of a place; or an adjective meaning "of or relating to (the place)".
- Combined with a pronoun, forms an adjective relating to the kind or nature of a person or an object.
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Front vowel variant of -lainen alt-of, front-vowel, morpheme
- Combined with a name, forms an adjective for a member of an organization or other defined group, a follower of philosophy etc.
- Combined with the genitive form of an adjective, forms an adjective indicating a smaller degree of the quality than that described by the original adjective.
- Combined with a common noun, forms nouns for people characterized by this noun.
- Forms various diminutives; also used in surnames.
Esimerkit
“Viro (“Estonia”) + -lainen → virolainen (“Estonian”)”
“Savo (“Savonia”) + -lainen → savolainen (“Savonian”)”
“German Hegel + -lainen → hegeliläinen (“Hegelian”)”
“kokoomus + -lainen → kokoomuslainen”
“eläke (“pension”) + -lainen → eläkeläinen (“pensioner”)”
“vuokra (“rent”) + -lainen → vuokralainen (“tenant, lessee”)”
“repo (“(dated) fox”) + -lainen → repolainen (“fox”) (nickname, poetic)”
“eri + -lainen → erilainen (“different”)”
“eräs + -lainen → eräänlainen (“kind of (a)”)”
“mikä + -lainen → minkälainen / millainen (“what kind of?”)”
“sama + -lainen → samanlainen (“similar, of the same kind”)”
“se + -lainen → sellainen (“such, of that kind”)”
“tämä + -lainen → tällainen / tälläinen (colloquial) (“of this kind”)”
“viiden (“five”) + -lainen → viidenlainen (“of five kinds”) (usually used in the plural)”
“heikko + -lainen → heikonlainen (“relatively weak”)”
“oikea + -lainen → oikeanlainen (“of a right kind (but not the right one)”)”
“viileä + -lainen → viileänlainen (“sort of cool”)”
CEFR-taso
B1
Keskitaso
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