käpälämäki

Finnish

Etymology

käpälä +‎ mäki

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkæpælæˌmæki/, [ˈk̟æpælæˌmæk̟i]
Rhymes: -æki
Syllabification^(key): kä‧pä‧lä‧mä‧ki

Noun

käpälämäki

An imaginary place where one is said to go when one scrams, chiefly used in illative singular.
Synonyms: lipetti, livohka, pako

lähteä käpälämäkeen ― to scram

olla käpälämäessä ― to be hiding

Declension

Only used in singular, and in only few cases.

Declension of käpälämäki (type 7*D/ovi)

	singular	plural
nominative	käpälämäki	–
genitive	–	–
partitive	–	–
accusative	käpälämäki	–
inessive	käpälämäessä	–
elative	–	–
illative	käpälämäkeen	–
adessive	–	–
ablative	–	–
allative	–	–
essive	–	–
translative	–	–
abessive	–	–
instructive	–	–
comitative	–	–

Further reading

“käpälämäki”, 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 2023-07-02

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