Chile
English
Alternative forms
- Chili (dated, now rare)
Etymology
From Quechua chiri (“cold”) chili, or, from Mapudungun chülle (“Chroicocephalus serranus”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Chile
- A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Chile.
- While I come from Chile, my husband is from England.
Translations
country in South America
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See also
Alemannic German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈχi.lə/
Noun
Chile f (plural Chilene, diminutive Chileli)
- (Aargau, Basel, Bern, Fribourg, Lucerne, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Uri, Zug, St Gallen (Amden), Zürich) Alternative form of Chirche
- 1978, Rolf Lyssey and Christa Maerker, Die Schweizermacher (transcript):
- Si, wi haist jetzt au no di Pizzeria in Lecce, hinder de Chile?
- Hey, what's the name of the pizzeria in Lecce, behind the church?
- Si, wi haist jetzt au no di Pizzeria in Lecce, hinder de Chile?
- 1978, Rolf Lyssey and Christa Maerker, Die Schweizermacher (transcript):
Asturian
Central Huasteca Nahuatl
Central Nahuatl
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃɪlɛ]
- Rhymes: -ɪlɛ
Danish
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃiːle/, [ˈʃiːle̞]
- IPA(key): /ˈtʃiːle/, [ˈt̪ʃiːle̞]
- Syllabification(key): Chi‧le
Declension
| Inflection of Chile (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Chile | — | |
| genitive | Chilen | — | |
| partitive | Chileä | — | |
| illative | Chileen | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Chile | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Chile | — |
| gen. | Chilen | ||
| genitive | Chilen | — | |
| partitive | Chileä | — | |
| inessive | Chilessä | — | |
| elative | Chilestä | — | |
| illative | Chileen | — | |
| adessive | Chilellä | — | |
| ablative | Chileltä | — | |
| allative | Chilelle | — | |
| essive | Chilenä | — | |
| translative | Chileksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | Chilettä | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
| Possessive forms of Chile (type nalle) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | Chileni | Chilemme |
| 2nd person | Chilesi | Chilenne |
| 3rd person | Chilensä | |
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃiːlə/, /ˈʃiːlə/, /ˈçiːlə/
Audio (file)
Proper noun
Chile n (proper noun, genitive Chiles or (optionally with an article) Chile)
- Chile (a country in South America)
Derived terms
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃiːlɛ]
- Hyphenation: Chi‧le
- Rhymes: -lɛ
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | Chile | — |
| accusative | Chilét | — |
| dative | Chilének | — |
| instrumental | Chilével | — |
| causal-final | Chiléért | — |
| translative | Chilévé | — |
| terminative | Chiléig | — |
| essive-formal | Chileként | — |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | Chilében | — |
| superessive | Chilén | — |
| adessive | Chilénél | — |
| illative | Chilébe | — |
| sublative | Chilére | — |
| allative | Chiléhez | — |
| elative | Chiléből | — |
| delative | Chiléről | — |
| ablative | Chilétől | — |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
Chiléé | — |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
Chilééi | — |
| Possessive forms of Chile | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | Chilém | — |
| 2nd person sing. | Chiléd | — |
| 3rd person sing. | Chiléje | — |
| 1st person plural | Chilénk | — |
| 2nd person plural | Chilétek | — |
| 3rd person plural | Chiléjük | — |
Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃi.le/
- Hyphenation: Chi‧le
Mapudungun
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʂi.lɛ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ilɛ
- Syllabification: Chi‧le
Derived terms
Portuguese
Spanish
Etymology
From Quechua chiri (“cold”) or chili, or from Mapudungun chilli (“seagull Larus dominicanus”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃile/ [ˈt͡ʃi.le]
Audio (Spain) (file) - Rhymes: -ile
- Syllabification: Chi‧le
Derived terms
Further reading
- “Chile”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Western Huasteca Nahuatl
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