pirssi
Finnish
Etymology
Originally pirssi was a station where horse-drawn carriages waited for passengers. When automobiles replaced the horses, the cars were called pirssiauto or vuokra-auto. Later, according to international practice the term taksi (“taxi”) was adopted by the branch but pirssi still remains as colloquial term for "taxi".
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pirs‧si
- IPA(key): /ˈpirsːi/
Noun
pirssi
- (colloquial) taxi
Declension
| Inflection of pirssi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | pirssi | pirssit | |
| genitive | pirssin | pirssien | |
| partitive | pirssiä | pirssejä | |
| illative | pirssiin | pirsseihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | pirssi | pirssit | |
| accusative | nom. | pirssi | pirssit |
| gen. | pirssin | ||
| genitive | pirssin | pirssien | |
| partitive | pirssiä | pirssejä | |
| inessive | pirssissä | pirsseissä | |
| elative | pirssistä | pirsseistä | |
| illative | pirssiin | pirsseihin | |
| adessive | pirssillä | pirsseillä | |
| ablative | pirssiltä | pirsseiltä | |
| allative | pirssille | pirsseille | |
| essive | pirssinä | pirsseinä | |
| translative | pirssiksi | pirsseiksi | |
| instructive | — | pirssein | |
| abessive | pirssittä | pirsseittä | |
| comitative | — | pirsseineen | |
Synonyms
- taksi