mopo
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clipping of moottoripolkupyörä (literally “motorized bicycle”), coined by Helkama in 1955. The army slang sense is taken from monni (which also begins with mo-).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mopo
- moped
- Synonym: mopedi
- Coordinate terms: kevytmoottoripyörä, kevari
- (military slang) Synonym of monni.
- (slang, by extension) new student in a school
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of mopo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | mopo | mopot | |
| genitive | mopon | mopojen | |
| partitive | mopoa | mopoja | |
| illative | mopoon | mopoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | mopo | mopot | |
| accusative | nom. | mopo | mopot |
| gen. | mopon | ||
| genitive | mopon | mopojen | |
| partitive | mopoa | mopoja | |
| inessive | mopossa | mopoissa | |
| elative | moposta | mopoista | |
| illative | mopoon | mopoihin | |
| adessive | mopolla | mopoilla | |
| ablative | mopolta | mopoilta | |
| allative | mopolle | mopoille | |
| essive | mopona | mopoina | |
| translative | mopoksi | mopoiksi | |
| abessive | mopotta | mopoitta | |
| instructive | — | mopoin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mopo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (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