funkis
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]funkis (comparative more funkis, superlative most funkis)
- Pertaining to a Scandinavian style of functionalist architecture.
- 2010, Margaret Hayford O'Leary, Culture and Customs of Norway, page 191:
- Funkis buildings can be identified by their flat roofs, large, flat surfaces, curved walls, geometric shapes, horizontal bands of windows, flexible interiors, and lack of excess decorations.
- 2014 March 18, Richard Orange, The Guardian:
- It moves on next month to include two further nesting boxes, both fitted out in Scandinavia's trademark Funkis architectural style, where Klann hopes the show's feathered stars will hatch and rear their young.
- 2016, Steinumm Sigurðardóttir, translated by Philip Roughton, The Good Lover, World Editions, page 19:
- A two-story house, so strictly funkis that he named it monkish, and earned top points from his girlfriend for it.
Finnish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clipping of funktionalismi -is.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]funkis (informal)
- (architecture) Synonym of funktionalismi.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of funkis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | funkis | — | |
genitive | funkiksen | — | |
partitive | funkista | — | |
illative | funkikseen | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | funkis | — | |
accusative | nom. | funkis | — |
gen. | funkiksen | ||
genitive | funkiksen | — | |
partitive | funkista | — | |
inessive | funkiksessa | — | |
elative | funkiksesta | — | |
illative | funkikseen | — | |
adessive | funkiksella | — | |
ablative | funkikselta | — | |
allative | funkikselle | — | |
essive | funkiksena | — | |
translative | funkikseksi | — | |
abessive | funkiksetta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Further reading
[edit]- “funkis”, 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 2023-07-02
Anagrams
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Clipping of funktionalism -is.
Noun
[edit]funkis c
- (colloquial, often in compounds) functionalism, a modernistic (1930s) style in architecture and interior decoration guided by function
- Synonym: funktionalism
Declension
[edit]Declension of funkis | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | funkis | funkisen | — | — |
Genitive | funkis | funkisens | — | — |
Etymology 2
[edit]Clipping of funktionshindrad -is.
Noun
[edit]funkis c
- (colloquial) a crip, a disabled person
Declension
[edit]Declension of funkis | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | funkis | funkisen | funkisar | funkisarna |
Genitive | funkis | funkisens | funkisars | funkisarnas |
References
[edit]Categories:
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English terms with quotations
- en:Architecture
- Finnish clippings
- Finnish terms suffixed with -is (slang)
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/uŋkis
- Rhymes:Finnish/uŋkis/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish informal terms
- fi:Architecture
- Finnish vastaus-type nominals
- Finnish uncountable nouns
- Swedish clippings
- Swedish terms suffixed with -is
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish colloquialisms