Finnish

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Etymology

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From Swedish borgmästare.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpormestɑri/, [ˈpo̞rme̞s̠ˌtɑ̝ri]
  • Rhymes: -ɑri
  • Hyphenation(key): por‧mes‧ta‧ri

Noun

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pormestari

  1. mayor ("general director" of a city's or other municipality's staff and chairman of the board of the municipality)
  2. an honorary title of the eighth rank granted by the President of Finland

Usage notes

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See usage notes under kunnanhallitus

Declension

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Inflection of pormestari (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative pormestari pormestarit
genitive pormestarin pormestarien
pormestareiden
pormestareitten
partitive pormestaria pormestareita
pormestareja
illative pormestariin pormestareihin
singular plural
nominative pormestari pormestarit
accusative nom. pormestari pormestarit
gen. pormestarin
genitive pormestarin pormestarien
pormestareiden
pormestareitten
partitive pormestaria pormestareita
pormestareja
inessive pormestarissa pormestareissa
elative pormestarista pormestareista
illative pormestariin pormestareihin
adessive pormestarilla pormestareilla
ablative pormestarilta pormestareilta
allative pormestarille pormestareille
essive pormestarina pormestareina
translative pormestariksi pormestareiksi
abessive pormestaritta pormestareitta
instructive pormestarein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of pormestari (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)

Derived terms

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compounds

See also

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Further reading

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  NODES
Note 4