atletiikka
Finnish
Noun
atletiikka
- (sports, dated) Those sports collectively which require great physical strength, such as weightlifting, wrestling, boxing, martial arts, bodybuilding.
Usage notes
- English athletics and Finnish atletiikka do not mean the same.
Declension
| Inflection of atletiikka (Kotus type 9/kala, kk-k gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | atletiikka | — | |
| genitive | atletiikan | — | |
| partitive | atletiikkaa | — | |
| illative | atletiikkaan | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | atletiikka | — | |
| accusative | nom. | atletiikka | — |
| gen. | atletiikan | ||
| genitive | atletiikan | — | |
| partitive | atletiikkaa | — | |
| inessive | atletiikassa | — | |
| elative | atletiikasta | — | |
| illative | atletiikkaan | — | |
| adessive | atletiikalla | — | |
| ablative | atletiikalta | — | |
| allative | atletiikalle | — | |
| essive | atletiikkana | — | |
| translative | atletiikaksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | atletiikatta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
Synonyms
- voimailu (formerly understood to be synonymous, but now voimailu is often understood more narrowly to comprise only weightlifting and similar sports)
- voimaurheilu