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pulma
pulma
Finnish
Etymology
Unknown origin, with no known cognates. Obscured derivational relationship to pula (“shortage, crisis”) may be possible.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pul‧ma
- IPA(key): /ˈpulmɑ/
Noun
pulma
- trouble, problem
- dilemma, conundrum (difficult choice or decision that must be made)
- puzzle, riddle, brain-teaser, conundrum (difficult question or riddle)
Declension
| Inflection of pulma (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | pulma | pulmat | |
| genitive | pulman | pulmien | |
| partitive | pulmaa | pulmia | |
| illative | pulmaan | pulmiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | pulma | pulmat | |
| accusative | nom. | pulma | pulmat |
| gen. | pulman | ||
| genitive | pulman | pulmien pulmainrare |
|
| partitive | pulmaa | pulmia | |
| inessive | pulmassa | pulmissa | |
| elative | pulmasta | pulmista | |
| illative | pulmaan | pulmiin | |
| adessive | pulmalla | pulmilla | |
| ablative | pulmalta | pulmilta | |
| allative | pulmalle | pulmille | |
| essive | pulmana | pulmina | |
| translative | pulmaksi | pulmiksi | |
| instructive | — | pulmin | |
| abessive | pulmatta | pulmitta | |
| comitative | — | pulmineen | |