luokka

From the same Slavic word as luokki, originally being a variant of it. The meaning has abstracted from "shaft bow" → "group of things (attached with a shaft bow)".

• IPA^(key): /ˈluo̞kːɑ/
• Hyphenation: luok‧ka

luokka

1. class (group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes)
2. class, social class (social grouping, based on job, wealth, inheritance etc.)
3. class (category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation)
4. grade (North America: a level of pre-collegiate education)

   Hän on kahdeksannella luokalla.

   He's in eighth grade.

5. class, school class (group of pre-college students who regularly attend lectures together)
6. class (group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher)
7. classroom
8. (mathematics) class (collection of sets definable by a shared property)
9. (taxonomy) class
10. (programming) class
11. Alternative form of luokki.

• (social class): yhteiskuntaluokka
• (classroom): luokkahuone