rippikoulu
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]rippi (“(religious) confession, confirmation”) + koulu (“school”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈripːiˌkou̯lu/, [ˈripːiˌko̞u̯lu]
- Rhymes: -oulu
- Syllabification(key): rip‧pi‧kou‧lu
- Hyphenation(key): rippi‧koulu
Noun
[edit]rippikoulu
- (Christianity) A "confirmation school"; in the Finnish Lutheran tradition, religious classes that a person is required to complete before being allowed a Christian wedding or being accepted to become a godparent, which normally consist of 80 hours of teaching and is done at the age of 15, and at the end of which the children receive the confirmation.
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of rippikoulu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | rippikoulu | rippikoulut | |
| genitive | rippikoulun | rippikoulujen | |
| partitive | rippikoulua | rippikouluja | |
| illative | rippikouluun | rippikouluihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | rippikoulu | rippikoulut | |
| accusative | nom. | rippikoulu | rippikoulut |
| gen. | rippikoulun | ||
| genitive | rippikoulun | rippikoulujen | |
| partitive | rippikoulua | rippikouluja | |
| inessive | rippikoulussa | rippikouluissa | |
| elative | rippikoulusta | rippikouluista | |
| illative | rippikouluun | rippikouluihin | |
| adessive | rippikoululla | rippikouluilla | |
| ablative | rippikoululta | rippikouluilta | |
| allative | rippikoululle | rippikouluille | |
| essive | rippikouluna | rippikouluina | |
| translative | rippikouluksi | rippikouluiksi | |
| abessive | rippikoulutta | rippikouluitta | |
| instructive | — | rippikouluin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Synonyms
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Further reading
[edit]- “rippikoulu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023