Tasmania
English
Etymology
After the Dutch naval explorer Abel Tasman, who visited and documented the island and New Zealand in 1642.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /tæzˈmeɪniə/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪniə
Proper noun
Tasmania
- One of the six federal states of Australia, consisting of one large, eponymous and several much smaller islands, off the eastern part of Australia's south coast, having its capital at Hobart.
- (historical) The colony that became the state of Tasmania at federation in 1901.
- The large island of Australia comprising the majority of the state of Tasmania's land area and on which most of its inhabitants live.
Synonyms
- (abbreviation) Tassie (colloquial)
- (historical) Van Diemen's Land
Translations
Australian state
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island comprising majority of state
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Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɑsmɑniɑ/, [ˈt̪ɑs̠mɑˌniɑ]
- Rhymes: -iɑ
- Syllabification(key): Tas‧ma‧ni‧a
Declension
| Inflection of Tasmania (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Tasmania | — | |
| genitive | Tasmanian | — | |
| partitive | Tasmaniaa | — | |
| illative | Tasmaniaan | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Tasmania | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Tasmania | — |
| gen. | Tasmanian | ||
| genitive | Tasmanian | — | |
| partitive | Tasmaniaa | — | |
| inessive | Tasmaniassa | — | |
| elative | Tasmaniasta | — | |
| illative | Tasmaniaan | — | |
| adessive | Tasmanialla | — | |
| ablative | Tasmanialta | — | |
| allative | Tasmanialle | — | |
| essive | Tasmaniana | — | |
| translative | Tasmaniaksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | Tasmaniatta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
| Possessive forms of Tasmania (type kulkija) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | Tasmaniani | Tasmaniamme |
| 2nd person | Tasmaniasi | Tasmanianne |
| 3rd person | Tasmaniansa | |
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtɒzmaːnijɒ][1]
- Rhymes: -jɒ
- Hyphenation: Tas‧ma‧nia
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | Tasmania | — |
| accusative | Tasmaniát | — |
| dative | Tasmaniának | — |
| instrumental | Tasmaniával | — |
| causal-final | Tasmaniáért | — |
| translative | Tasmaniává | — |
| terminative | Tasmaniáig | — |
| essive-formal | Tasmaniaként | — |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | Tasmaniában | — |
| superessive | Tasmanián | — |
| adessive | Tasmaniánál | — |
| illative | Tasmaniába | — |
| sublative | Tasmaniára | — |
| allative | Tasmaniához | — |
| elative | Tasmaniából | — |
| delative | Tasmaniáról | — |
| ablative | Tasmaniától | — |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
Tasmaniáé | — |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
Tasmaniáéi | — |
| Possessive forms of Tasmania | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | Tasmaniám | — |
| 2nd person sing. | Tasmaniád | — |
| 3rd person sing. | Tasmaniája | — |
| 1st person plural | Tasmaniánk | — |
| 2nd person plural | Tasmaniátok | — |
| 3rd person plural | Tasmaniájuk | — |
References
- Laczkó, Krisztina and Attila Mártonfi. Helyesírás (’Orthography’). Budapest: Osiris Kiadó, 2006. →ISBN
- Tóth, Etelka (ed.). Magyar helyesírási szótár: A magyar helyesírás szabályai tizenkettedik kiadása szerint (’Dictionary of Hungarian Orthography: according to the 12th edition of the regulations of the Hungarian orthography’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2017. →ISBN Online version
Italian
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tasˈma.ɲa/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aɲa
- Syllabification: Tas‧ma‧nia
Declension
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tasˈmanja/ [t̪azˈma.nja]
- Rhymes: -anja
- Syllabification: Tas‧ma‧nia
Welsh
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /tasˈmanja/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /tazˈmanja/
Derived terms
- blaidd Tasmania (“Tasmanian wolf”)
- cythraul Tasmania (“Tasmanian devil”)
- teigr Tasmania (“Tasmanian tiger”)
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