surma
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See also: Surma
Noun
surma (uncountable)
- Alternative form of soorma
Anagrams
Noun
surma
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *surma, from Proto-Uralic *śurma. Equivalent to surra + -ma. Cognates include Estonian surm, Karelian šurma.
Pronunciation
Noun
surma
- violent death (mainly used of humans)
- He saivat surmansa
- They got killed
- (literally, “They got their deaths.”)
- the personification of sudden death
- Hän joutui surman suuhun.
- He got killed.
- (literally, “He got into the mouth of death.”)
- (law) killing, voluntary manslaughter under mitigating circumstances
Usage notes
- (law): "killing" is the unofficial translation of Finnish penal code used by the Ministry of Justice of Finland. See usage notes under tappo.
Declension
| Inflection of surma (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | surma | surmat | |
| genitive | surman | surmien | |
| partitive | surmaa | surmia | |
| illative | surmaan | surmiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | surma | surmat | |
| accusative | nom. | surma | surmat |
| gen. | surman | ||
| genitive | surman | surmien surmain rare | |
| partitive | surmaa | surmia | |
| inessive | surmassa | surmissa | |
| elative | surmasta | surmista | |
| illative | surmaan | surmiin | |
| adessive | surmalla | surmilla | |
| ablative | surmalta | surmilta | |
| allative | surmalle | surmille | |
| essive | surmana | surmina | |
| translative | surmaksi | surmiksi | |
| abessive | surmatta | surmitta | |
| instructive | — | surmin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Synonyms
- (voluntary manslaughter): tappo (common language)
Derived terms
nouns
phrases
verbs
See also
Further reading
- “surma”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (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
Anagrams
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *surma. Cognates include Finnish surma and Estonian surm.
Pronunciation
Noun
surma
Declension
| Declension of surma (type 3/koira, no gradation) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | surma | surmat |
| genitive | surman | surmiin |
| partitive | surmaa | surmia |
| illative | surmaa | surmii |
| inessive | surmaas | surmiis |
| elative | surmast | surmist |
| allative | surmalle | surmille |
| adessive | surmaal | surmiil |
| ablative | surmalt | surmilt |
| translative | surmaks | surmiks |
| essive | surmanna, surmaan | surminna, surmiin |
| exessive1) | surmant | surmint |
| 1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive. | ||
Synonyms
Derived terms
See also
- koolla (“to die”)
References
- Fedor Tumansky (1790) “сурума”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 699
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 551
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