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See also: Promille
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: pro‧mil‧le
Noun
[edit]promille n (uncountable)
See also
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Swedish promille, from German Promille, from Latin per mille.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]promille
- per mille, permille, per mil, per mill, (one) thousandth (1/1000th part of something)
Usage notes
[edit]- In English, the equivalents of this term are rarely used, even so that many dictionaries do not list them at all.
- A quite common use for promille in Finnish is to refer to blood alcohol content (BAC), e.g. 1 ‰ (promille(a)), equal to 0.1% (e.g. US) or 100 mg% (e.g. UK).
- kolmen promillen humala ― intoxication/drunkenness at a level of 3 ‰ (e.g. US: 0.3 BAC, e.g. UK: 300 mg%)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of promille (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | promille | promillet | |
genitive | promillen | promillejen | |
partitive | promillea | promilleja | |
illative | promilleen | promilleihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | promille | promillet | |
accusative | nom. | promille | promillet |
gen. | promillen | ||
genitive | promillen | promillejen promillein rare | |
partitive | promillea | promilleja | |
inessive | promillessa | promilleissa | |
elative | promillesta | promilleista | |
illative | promilleen | promilleihin | |
adessive | promillella | promilleilla | |
ablative | promillelta | promilleilta | |
allative | promillelle | promilleille | |
essive | promillena | promilleina | |
translative | promilleksi | promilleiksi | |
abessive | promilletta | promilleitta | |
instructive | — | promillein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “promille”, 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
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]promille c
- permille (per thousand)
Declension
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Derived terms
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- Rhymes:Finnish/omilːe
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- Finnish nalle-type nominals
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