nelisenkymmentä
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnelisenˌkymːentæ/, [ˈne̞lis̠e̞ŋˌk̟ymːe̞n̪t̪æ]
- Rhymes: -ymːentæ
- Syllabification(key): ne‧li‧sen‧kym‧men‧tä
Declension
The word nelisenkymmentä is not inflected. If one wants to say e.g. "in about forty" in Finnish, the easiest possibility is to use the adverb noin (“about”) as determiner to the numeral neljäkymmentä (“forty”):
- noin neljässäkymmenessä tapauksessa sadasta = in about forty cases out of one hundred
Further reading
- “nelisenkymmentä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
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