pieni
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *peeni. Cognate with Estonian peen, Veps pen'.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pieni (comparative pienempi, superlative pienin)
- small, little (low in size, amount or intensity)
- small, insignificant (of little importance or significance)
- small, little (young, still growing up)
- (of sound, chiefly in external locative cases) quiet
- Synonym: (generally) hiljainen
- Laitoin radiota pienemmälle.
- I turned down the radio.
- (typography) small, lowercase, minuscule
- Antonym: iso
- pieni kirjain ― small letter
- (music) minor (of an interval)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of pieni (Kotus type 26/pieni, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | pieni | pienet | |
genitive | pienen | pienten pienien | |
partitive | pientä | pieniä | |
illative | pieneen | pieniin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | pieni | pienet | |
accusative | nom. | pieni | pienet |
gen. | pienen | ||
genitive | pienen | pienten pienien | |
partitive | pientä | pieniä | |
inessive | pienessä | pienissä | |
elative | pienestä | pienistä | |
illative | pieneen | pieniin | |
adessive | pienellä | pienillä | |
ablative | pieneltä | pieniltä | |
allative | pienelle | pienille | |
essive | pienenä | pieninä | |
translative | pieneksi | pieniksi | |
abessive | pienettä | pienittä | |
instructive | — | pienin | |
comitative | — | pienine |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
- lännenpienihammasrotta
- meksikonpienikorvapäästäinen
- pienenpieni
- pienialainen
- pieniannoksinen
- pieniegyptingerbiili
- pienihuokoinen
- pienijyväinen
- pienikaliiberinen
- pienikaliiperinen
- pienikasvuinen
- pienikokoinen
- pienikuvioinen
- pienilevikkinen
- pieniluinen
- pienimerkityksinen
- pienimittakaavainen
- pienimuotoinen
- pienimünsterinseisoja
- Pienimäki
- Pieniniemi
- pienipainoinen
- pienipalkkainen
- pienipiirteinen
- pienipäinen
- pienipäisyys
- pieniruokainen
- pienisolusyöpä
- pienitehoinen
- pienituloinen
- pienjännite
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “pieni”, 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 2023-07-01
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈpie̯ni/, [ˈpie̞̯ni] (third-person indicative)
- IPA(key): /ˈpie̯niˣ/, [ˈpie̞̯ni(ʔ)] (imperative, indicative connegative)
- Rhymes: -ieni
- Hyphenation(key): pie‧ni
Verb
[edit]pieni
- inflection of pieniä:
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pieni m
Noun
[edit]pieni m
References
[edit]- ^ pieno in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Karelian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pieni
Latvian
[edit]Noun
[edit]pieni m
- nominative/vocative plural of piens
- 1964, Zootechnikas un Zoohigienas, volume 1, published by the Instituta Raksti:
- [...] atsevišķām govīm vasarā ganību laikā piemīt individuālas īpašības izdalīt pieni [...]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1979, Latviešu Tautasdziesmas: darba dziesmas, gadskārtu ieražu dziesmas, page 183:
- Ganiem sieri, ganiem pieni.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1964, Zootechnikas un Zoohigienas, volume 1, published by the Instituta Raksti:
Polish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pieni n
Verb
[edit]pieni
Categories:
- Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ieni
- Rhymes:Finnish/ieni/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish adjectives
- Finnish terms with usage examples
- fi:Typography
- fi:Music
- Finnish pieni-type nominals
- Finnish non-lemma forms
- Finnish verb forms
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛni
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛni/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Italian/eni
- Rhymes:Italian/eni/2 syllables
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian adjective forms
- Italian noun forms
- Karelian lemmas
- Karelian adjectives
- Latvian non-lemma forms
- Latvian noun forms
- Latvian terms with quotations
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/ɛɲi
- Rhymes:Polish/ɛɲi/2 syllables
- Polish non-lemma forms
- Polish noun forms
- Polish verb forms