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ostos

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See also: ôtô and ô tô

Finnish

Etymology

ostaa (to buy, purchase) + -os. Coined by Finnish author and journalist Pietari Hannikainen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈostos/, [ˈo̞s̠to̞s̠]
  • Rhymes: -ostos
  • Syllabification(key): os‧tos
  • Hyphenation(key): os‧tos

Noun

ostos

  1. purchase (item bought)
  2. (in the plural) shopping (things bought)
    Kannoin kolme kassia ostoksia portaita ylös.
    I carried three bags of shopping up the stairs.
  3. (in plural external locative cases) shopping (the event of specifically going out for shopping)
    Missä käyt ostoksilla?
    Where do you do your shopping?
    Tulin juuri kotiin ostoksilta.
    I just came home from shopping.
    Hän lähti Marjan kanssa ostoksille.
    She went shopping with Mary.

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

Synonyms

  • hankinta (used of large, durable and/or expensive purchases)

Derived terms

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Karelian

Etymology

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Noun

ostos (genitive ostoksen, partitive ostostu)

  1. purchase

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈoːsːtos/

Verb

ōstos

  1. third-person singular imperative of oastit

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