porvari
See also: Porvari
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Swedish borghare. Sense 2 is a semantic loan from French bourgeois.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]porvari
- (historical) burgher, merchant, shopowner
- (politics) a person having bourgeois opinions; a bourgeois
- (politics, Marxism) bourgeois, capitalist
- (in compounds) bourgeois, bourgeoisie, right-wing, nonsocialist, conservative
- (colloquial, derogatory) bougie, upperclass person
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of porvari (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | porvari | porvarit | |
| genitive | porvarin | porvarien porvareiden porvareitten | |
| partitive | porvaria | porvareita porvareja | |
| illative | porvariin | porvareihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | porvari | porvarit | |
| accusative | nom. | porvari | porvarit |
| gen. | porvarin | ||
| genitive | porvarin | porvarien porvareiden porvareitten | |
| partitive | porvaria | porvareita porvareja | |
| inessive | porvarissa | porvareissa | |
| elative | porvarista | porvareista | |
| illative | porvariin | porvareihin | |
| adessive | porvarilla | porvareilla | |
| ablative | porvarilta | porvareilta | |
| allative | porvarille | porvareille | |
| essive | porvarina | porvareina | |
| translative | porvariksi | porvareiksi | |
| abessive | porvaritta | porvareitta | |
| instructive | — | porvarein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]- pikkuporvari
- poroporvari
- porvarienemmistö (“nonsocialist majority”)
- porvarihallitus (“right-wing government”)
- porvarillinen
- porvaripuolue (“capitalist party”)
- porvariskoti
- porvarismi
- porvarisnainen
- porvarissääty
- porvaristo
- porvarius
- tervaporvari
Further reading
[edit]- “porvari”, 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
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