Helsinki

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɛlˈsɪŋ.ki/
  • enPR: hělʹsǐngʹkē
  • (file)

Proper noun

Helsinki

  1. 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


Azerbaijani

Proper noun

Helsinki

  1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

Breton

Proper noun

Helsinki

  1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

Danish

Proper noun

Helsinki (?)

  1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)
    Synonym: (dated, rare) Helsingfors

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌɦɛlˈsiŋ.ki/, (less common) /ˈɦɛlˌsiŋ.ki/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: Hel‧sin‧ki

Proper noun

Helsinki n

  1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

Synonyms


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

  1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)
    Synonyms: Hki, (colloquial, Helsinki) Stadi, (colloquial, rest of Finland) Hesa

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)
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)
possessor singular plural
1st person Helsinkini Helsinkimme
2nd person Helsinkisi Helsinkinne
3rd person Helsinkinsä

French

Pronunciation

  • (aspirated h) IPA(key): /ɛl.siŋ.ki/
  • (file)

Proper noun

Helsinki f

  1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

German

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Proper noun

Helsinki n (proper noun, genitive Helsinkis or (optionally with an article) Helsinki)

  1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhɛlsiŋki]
  • Hyphenation: Hel‧sin‧ki
  • Rhymes: -ki

Proper noun

Helsinki

  1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
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
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

Icelandic

Proper noun

Helsinki n

  1. Helsinki (the capital of Finland)

Latvian

Proper noun

Helsinki m pl (1st declension)

  1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

Declension


Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xɛlˈsiŋ.ki/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -iŋki
  • Syllabification: Hel‧sin‧ki

Proper noun

Helsinki nvir

  1. (plural only) Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

Declension

Derived terms

adjective
nouns
  • helsinka
  • helsińczyk

Further reading

  • Helsinki in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • Helsinki in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Proper noun

Helsinki f

  1. Alternative form of Helsinque

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Helsinki m (Cyrillic spelling Хелсинки)

  1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

Slovak

Etymology

From Finnish Helsinki.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɦɛɫsiŋki/

Proper noun

Helsinki f pl (genitive singular Helsínk, declension pattern of žena)

  1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • Helsinki in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xelˈsinki/ [xelˈsĩŋ.ki]
  • Rhymes: -inki
  • Syllabification: Hel‧sin‧ki

Proper noun

Helsinki ?

  1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

Turkish

Etymology

From Finnish Helsinki.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [hælˈsinci]
  • Hyphenation: hel‧sin‧ki

Proper noun

Helsinki

  1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

Declension

Derived terms

  • Helsinkili

Võro

Proper noun

Helsinki (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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