rivitalo
Finnish
editEtymology
editrivi (“row”) + talo (“house”)
Pronunciation
editNoun
editrivitalo
- terrace (row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses)
- Hypernym: pientalo
- Coordinate terms: erillistalo, ketjutalo, omakotitalo, paritalo, kaupunkipientalo
- rowhouse, row house, terraced house, rowhome, town house, townhouse (one of a row of houses situated side by side and sharing a common wall)
- Synonym: rivitaloasunto
- Asun rivitalossa.
- I live in a rowhouse.
Usage notes
editStrictly speaking, rivitalo implies that the terrace and all of its houses are located on the same lot (i.e. that each terraced house is actually an apartment or a flat), which is often owned by a condominium (asunto-osakeyhtiö). If each house has its own lot, the technical term is kaupunkipientalo or kaupunkirivitalo.
Declension
editInflection of rivitalo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | rivitalo | rivitalot | |
genitive | rivitalon | rivitalojen | |
partitive | rivitaloa | rivitaloja | |
illative | rivitaloon | rivitaloihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | rivitalo | rivitalot | |
accusative | nom. | rivitalo | rivitalot |
gen. | rivitalon | ||
genitive | rivitalon | rivitalojen | |
partitive | rivitaloa | rivitaloja | |
inessive | rivitalossa | rivitaloissa | |
elative | rivitalosta | rivitaloista | |
illative | rivitaloon | rivitaloihin | |
adessive | rivitalolla | rivitaloilla | |
ablative | rivitalolta | rivitaloilta | |
allative | rivitalolle | rivitaloille | |
essive | rivitalona | rivitaloina | |
translative | rivitaloksi | rivitaloiksi | |
abessive | rivitalotta | rivitaloitta | |
instructive | — | rivitaloin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
editcompounds
Further reading
edit- “rivitalo”, 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