lauma
See also: Lauma
Finnish
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: lau‧ma
- Rhymes: -ɑumɑ
- IPA(key): /ˈlɑu̯mɑ/, [ˈlɑu̯mɑ]
Noun
lauma
- herd (large group of land animals)
- band (group of coyotes, etc.)
- colony (group of ants)
- flock (group sheep, etc.)
- mob (group of kangaroos)
- pack (group of dogs, etc.)
- pride (group of lions)
- bed (group of snakes)
- crowd, mob, flock (large uncontrolled group of people)
- pod (group of seals or hippopotami)
Declension
| Inflection of lauma (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | lauma | laumat | |
| genitive | lauman | laumojen | |
| partitive | laumaa | laumoja | |
| illative | laumaan | laumoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | lauma | laumat | |
| accusative | nom. | lauma | laumat |
| gen. | lauman | ||
| genitive | lauman | laumojen laumainrare | |
| partitive | laumaa | laumoja | |
| inessive | laumassa | laumoissa | |
| elative | laumasta | laumoista | |
| illative | laumaan | laumoihin | |
| adessive | laumalla | laumoilla | |
| ablative | laumalta | laumoilta | |
| allative | laumalle | laumoille | |
| essive | laumana | laumoina | |
| translative | laumaksi | laumoiksi | |
| instructive | — | laumoin | |
| abessive | laumatta | laumoitta | |
| comitative | — | laumoineen | |
Usage notes
This word is used of groups of most land animals. Exceptions include herded reindeer (tokka), domesticated lamb and goat (katras). Group of flying or water animals is usually called parvi (3D-form). Seals are a bordercase. Usually a group of seals is lauma (2D-form) but when in water, especially a small group of seals may be called parvi.
Synonyms
- (crowd): joukko, väkijoukko
Derived terms
- laumoittain
Compounds
- kanalauma
- karjalauma
- koiralauma
- lammaslauma
- lapsilauma
- laumaeläin
- laumahenki
- laumaihminen
- laumasielu
- laumavaisto
- porolauma
- puhvelilauma
- sikalauma
- sikolauma
- sopulilauma
- susilauma
- turistilauma
- vuohilauma
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈløyːma/
- Rhymes: -øyːma
Verb
lauma (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative laumaði, supine laumað)
- (transitive) to sneak, slip
Conjugation
lauma — active voice (germynd)
| infinitive (nafnháttur) | að lauma | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| supine (sagnbót) | laumað | ||||
| present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) | laumandi | ||||
| indicative (framsöguháttur) | subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) | ||||
| present (nútíð) | ég lauma | við laumum | present (nútíð) | ég laumi | við laumum |
| þú laumar | þið laumið | þú laumir | þið laumið | ||
| hann, hún, það laumar | þeir, þær, þau lauma | hann, hún, það laumi | þeir, þær, þau laumi | ||
| past (þátíð) | ég laumaði | við laumuðum | past (þátíð) | ég laumaði | við laumuðum |
| þú laumaðir | þið laumuðuð | þú laumaðir | þið laumuðuð | ||
| hann, hún, það laumaði | þeir, þær, þau laumuðu | hann, hún, það laumaði | þeir, þær, þau laumuðu | ||
| imperative (boðháttur) | lauma (þú) | laumið (þið) | |||
| Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
| laumaðu | laumiði * | ||||
| * Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. | |||||
laumast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)
| infinitive (nafnháttur) | að laumast | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| supine (sagnbót) | laumast | ||||
| present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) | laumandist ** ** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses | ||||
| indicative (framsöguháttur) | subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) | ||||
| present (nútíð) | ég laumast | við laumumst | present (nútíð) | ég laumist | við laumumst |
| þú laumast | þið laumist | þú laumist | þið laumist | ||
| hann, hún, það laumast | þeir, þær, þau laumast | hann, hún, það laumist | þeir, þær, þau laumist | ||
| past (þátíð) | ég laumaðist | við laumuðumst | past (þátíð) | ég laumaðist | við laumuðumst |
| þú laumaðist | þið laumuðust | þú laumaðist | þið laumuðust | ||
| hann, hún, það laumaðist | þeir, þær, þau laumuðust | hann, hún, það laumaðist | þeir, þær, þau laumuðust | ||
| imperative (boðháttur) | laumast (þú) | laumist (þið) | |||
| Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
| laumastu | laumisti * | ||||
| * Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. | |||||
Noun
lauma f (genitive singular laumu, no plural)
- a card game in which players simultaneously pass a card to the next person, trying to collect a matching set