tokko

Finnish

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtokːo/
  • Hyphenation: tok‧ko

Etymology 1

Noun

tokko

  1. goby (fish of the genus Gobius)
Declension
Inflection of tokko (Kotus type 1/valo, kk-k gradation)
nominative tokko tokot
genitive tokon tokkojen
partitive tokkoa tokkoja
illative tokkoon tokkoihin
singular plural
nominative tokko tokot
accusative nom. tokko tokot
gen. tokon
genitive tokon tokkojen
partitive tokkoa tokkoja
inessive tokossa tokoissa
elative tokosta tokoista
illative tokkoon tokkoihin
adessive tokolla tokoilla
ablative tokolta tokoilta
allative tokolle tokoille
essive tokkona tokkoina
translative tokoksi tokoiksi
instructive — tokoin
abessive tokotta tokoitta
comitative — tokkoineen

Etymology 2

Adverb

tokko

  1. I don't think, hardly; used to express doubt, often with softening clitic -pa or -han.
    Tokko sitä enää kukaan muistaa.
    I don't think anyone remembers that anymore.
    Tokkopa siellä ketään on, tähän aikaan.
    There's probably no one in there, at this hour.

Synonyms

See also

Conjunction

tokko

  1. (archaic) if, whether; used to begin an indirect question
    En osaa sanoa, tokko hän vielä tietää.
    I can't say whether he already knows.
Usage notes

In current language, the clitic -ko, -kö is normally used instead of tokko. The example above would then read:

  • En osaa sanoa, tietääkö hän vielä.
Synonyms

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

tokko

  1. Rōmaji transcription of とっこ

Oromo

Numeral

tokko

  1. (cardinal) one.
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