viitonen

Finnish

Etymology

< viisi (five) + -nen

Noun

viitonen

  1. The digit five
  2. Something that can be identified with the number 5; e.g. a number five tram, or the player nr. 5 in a football team. When used as modifier in compound terms contracts to viitos-.
    Kokkonen juoksee viitosradalla.
    Kokkonen runs on track number five.
    Viitonen kulkee vain aamulla ja iltapäivällä.
    (The tram/bus number) five only runs in the morning and in the afternoon.
  3. Something that is valued as five units of something, such as a five-euro bill, five of spades, a five in a game of dice.
    Voitko lainata minulle viitosen?
    Can you lend me a five?
    Valttiviitonen kaataa herttaässän.
    A five of trumps beats the ace of hearts,
  4. quintuplet (one of a group of five babies born from the same mother during the same birth)
  5. (card games, in the plural) five of a kind (five cards of the same rank, only possible if more than one deck or at least one joker is used)
  6. (sports, colloquial) Synonym of 5 000 metrin juoksu.

Declension

Inflection of viitonen (Kotus type 38/nainen, no gradation)
nominative viitonen viitoset
genitive viitosen viitosten
viitosien
partitive viitosta viitosia
illative viitoseen viitosiin
singular plural
nominative viitonen viitoset
accusative nom. viitonen viitoset
gen. viitosen
genitive viitosen viitosten
viitosien
partitive viitosta viitosia
inessive viitosessa viitosissa
elative viitosesta viitosista
illative viitoseen viitosiin
adessive viitosella viitosilla
ablative viitoselta viitosilta
allative viitoselle viitosille
essive viitosena viitosina
translative viitoseksi viitosiksi
instructive viitosin
abessive viitosetta viitositta
comitative viitosineen

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