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Etymology

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Until the second half of the 19th century, this was a direct loan of Swedish neger without adaptation to Finnish phonology, at least in writing, which rarely happens in Finnish. Nevertheless, the form neekeri was no doubt almost immediately used in speaking, long before it was used in writing since Finnish seldom differentiates between voiced and unvoiced plosives and since an /i/ is usually suffixed to foreign words ending in a consonant. The Swedish word came from French nègre.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈneːkeri/, [ˈne̞ːk̟e̞ri]
  • Rhymes: -eːkeri
  • Hyphenation(key): nee‧ke‧ri

Noun

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neekeri

  1. (offensive, ethnic slur) nigger (person with dark brown skin)
  2. (dated, politically incorrect) negro (person of African descent)
  3. (dated) journalist
  4. (originally humorous, now politically incorrect) a person who performs hard or menial work
    Kukahan neekeri me saadaan tekemään se?
    Who's the negro you think we'll get to do it?

Usage notes

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  • Although originally non-pejorative, use of this term is now chiefly interpreted as offensive.

Declension

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Inflection of neekeri (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative neekeri neekerit
genitive neekerin neekerien
neekereiden
neekereitten
partitive neekeriä neekereitä
neekerejä
illative neekeriin neekereihin
singular plural
nominative neekeri neekerit
accusative nom. neekeri neekerit
gen. neekerin
genitive neekerin neekerien
neekereiden
neekereitten
partitive neekeriä neekereitä
neekerejä
inessive neekerissä neekereissä
elative neekeristä neekereistä
illative neekeriin neekereihin
adessive neekerillä neekereillä
ablative neekeriltä neekereiltä
allative neekerille neekereille
essive neekerinä neekereinä
translative neekeriksi neekereiksi
abessive neekerittä neekereittä
instructive neekerein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of neekeri (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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compounds

Further reading

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