Helsinki
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɛlˈsɪŋ.ki/
- enPR: hělʹsǐngʹkē
Audio (US) (file)
Proper noun
Helsinki
- The capital city of Finland
- Synonym: (obsolete) Helsingfors
- 2005, Clinton, Bill, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, OCLC 60594427, pages 376-377:
- My doctors didn't want me to go to Helsinki, but staying home wasn't an option. Yeltsin had been reelected and NATO was about to vote to admit Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic; we had to have an agreement on how to proceed.
Derived terms
Translations
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Azerbaijani
Breton
Danish
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɦɛlˈsiŋ.ki/, (less common) /ˈɦɛlˌsiŋ.ki/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: Hel‧sin‧ki
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from vernacular Swedish Helsinge, whence also Swedish Helsingfors.
Traditionally considered to have been named after the Swedish province of Hälsingland due to the high number of initial immigrants from there, in turn possibly from hals (“neck, throat; narrow stream”) + -inge, a suffix seen in Swedish place names.
Some more recent theories instead argue that the name is derived directly from the aforementioned hals, perhaps from Old Swedish hals > Old Swedish hälsinge, referring to the rapids, which are the narrowest part of the river Vantaa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhelsiŋki/, [ˈhe̞ls̠iŋki]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -elsiŋki
- Syllabification(key): Hel‧sin‧ki
Proper noun
Helsinki
Declension
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when talking about location; for example, "in Helsinki" is Helsingissä.
Inflection of Helsinki (Kotus type 5*G/risti, nk-ng gradation) | |||
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nominative | Helsinki | — | |
genitive | Helsingin | — | |
partitive | Helsinkiä | — | |
illative | Helsinkiin | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Helsinki | — | |
accusative | nom. | Helsinki | — |
gen. | Helsingin | ||
genitive | Helsingin | — | |
partitive | Helsinkiä | — | |
inessive | Helsingissä | — | |
elative | Helsingistä | — | |
illative | Helsinkiin | — | |
adessive | Helsingillä | — | |
ablative | Helsingiltä | — | |
allative | Helsingille | — | |
essive | Helsinkinä | — | |
translative | Helsingiksi | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
abessive | Helsingittä | — | |
comitative | — | — |
Possessive forms of Helsinki (type risti) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | Helsinkini | Helsinkimme |
2nd person | Helsinkisi | Helsinkinne |
3rd person | Helsinkinsä |
French
Pronunciation
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /ɛl.siŋ.ki/
Audio (file)
German
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Helsinki n (proper noun, genitive Helsinkis or (optionally with an article) Helsinki)
- Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈhɛlsiŋki]
- Hyphenation: Hel‧sin‧ki
- Rhymes: -ki
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | Helsinki | — |
accusative | Helsinkit | — |
dative | Helsinkinek | — |
instrumental | Helsinkivel | — |
causal-final | Helsinkiért | — |
translative | Helsinkivé | — |
terminative | Helsinkiig | — |
essive-formal | Helsinkiként | — |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | Helsinkiben | — |
superessive | Helsinkin | — |
adessive | Helsinkinél | — |
illative | Helsinkibe | — |
sublative | Helsinkire | — |
allative | Helsinkihez | — |
elative | Helsinkiből | — |
delative | Helsinkiről | — |
ablative | Helsinkitől | — |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
Helsinkié | — |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
Helsinkiéi | — |
Possessive forms of Helsinki | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | Helsinkim | — |
2nd person sing. | Helsinkid | — |
3rd person sing. | Helsinkije | — |
1st person plural | Helsinkink | — |
2nd person plural | Helsinkitek | — |
3rd person plural | Helsinkijük | — |
Derived terms
- helsinki
Latvian
Declension
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | — | Helsinki |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | — | Helsinkus |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | — | Helsinku |
dative (datīvs) | — | Helsinkiem |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | — | Helsinkiem |
locative (lokatīvs) | — | Helsinkos |
vocative (vokatīvs) | — | Helsinki |
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xɛlˈsiŋ.ki/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -iŋki
- Syllabification: Hel‧sin‧ki
Declension
Portuguese
Serbo-Croatian
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɦɛɫsiŋki/
Proper noun
Helsinki f pl (genitive singular Helsínk, declension pattern of žena)
- Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)
Declension
plurale tantum | |
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nominative | Helsinki |
genitive | Helsínk |
dative | Helsinkám |
accusative | Helsinki |
locative | Helsinkách |
instrumental | Helsinkami |
Derived terms
- Helsinčan m
- Helsinčanka f
- helsinský
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xelˈsinki/ [xelˈsĩŋ.ki]
- Rhymes: -inki
- Syllabification: Hel‧sin‧ki
Turkish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [hælˈsinci]
- Hyphenation: hel‧sin‧ki
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | Helsinki | Helsinkiler / Helsinki'ler |
accusative | Helsinki'yi | Helsinkileri / Helsinki'leri |
dative | Helsinki'ye | Helsinkilere / Helsinki'lere |
locative | Helsinki'de | Helsinkilerde / Helsinki'lerde |
ablative | Helsinki'den | Helsinkilerden / Helsinki'lerden |
genitive | Helsinki'nin | Helsinkilerin / Helsinki'lerin |
singular | plural | |
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benim (my) | Helsinki'm | Helsinkilerim / Helsinki'lerim |
senin (your) | Helsinki'n | Helsinkilerin / Helsinki'lerin |
onun (his/her/its) | Helsinki'si | Helsinkileri / Helsinki'leri |
bizim (our) | Helsinki'miz | Helsinkilerimiz / Helsinki'lerimiz |
sizin (your) | Helsinki'niz | Helsinkileriniz / Helsinki'leriniz |
onların (their) | Helsinki'si / Helsinkileri / Helsinki'leri | Helsinkileri / Helsinki'leri |
Derived terms
- Helsinkili
Võro
Proper noun
Helsinki (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.