Declensions
for sika
|
Singular |
Plural |
| Nominative |
sika |
siat |
| Genitive |
sian |
sikojen |
| Partitive |
sikaa |
sikoja |
| Accusative |
sian
sika |
siat |
| Inessive |
siassa |
sioissa |
| Elative |
siasta |
sioista |
| Illative |
sikaan |
sikoihin |
| Adessive |
sialla |
sioilla |
| Ablative |
sialta |
sioilta |
| Allative |
sialle |
sioille |
| Abessive |
siatta |
sioitta |
| Essive |
sikana |
sikoina |
| Translative |
siaksi |
sioiksi |
| Comitative |
--- |
sikoine |
| Instructive |
--- |
sioin |
When is sika used?
-
Älä ole sika! Don't be such
a hog!
-
Senkin sika! You're such a bloody pig!
-
Matti on maailman suurin sovinistisika.
Matthew is the most chauvinist pig in the world.
-
Toi on sikahalpa! That's way
cheap!
NB. Here sika is used as
a prefix to mean extremely. It can also be used in sikahyvä,
sikahieno,
sikasiisti,
etc.
Toi is the spoken form of tuo.
-
Jouluna syödään sikaa.
We eat pork at Christmas. Pork is eaten at Christmas.
NB. If this is the spoken form
of this sentence, the syödään is the 1st plural person
form of the verb syödä, but if it is the written form,
it is the passive form and means that pork is eaten at Christmas.
-
Hän löi Pekkaa kuin vierasta
sikaa. He hit Pekka as hard as possible without remorse.
NB. This means that the person
doing the hitting does it without caring about the consequences of how
much it would hurt the other person.
-
Sinä iltana löysimme hänet
sikahumalassa. We found him dead drunk that night.
-
Äitini sanoi aina, että jos ostat
jotain kuvaluettelosta, ostat sian säkissä. My mother
always claimed that if you bought something from a mail-order catalog,
you were buying a pig in a poke.
Sika's meanings
-
pig (also for chauvinist pig)
-
pork
-
swine
-
porcine
-
hog
-
way, rad (as a slang prefix)
Sika's synonyms
Verbs that are based on sika
-
sikailla
-
to act like a pig; to act completely uncouth.
-
sikailu
Adjectives that are based on sika
-
sikamainen
-
rotten, horrible, beastly, swinish, outrageous
(NB. This is a negative term)
-
sika-
-
way, rad, greatly, excessively (NB.
This is a positive term)
Nouns that are based on sika
-
sianliha
-
sianpuolukka
-
siansaksa
-
pig latin
-
mumbo jumbo, gibberish
-
siansaparo
-
(pig's) tail, pigtail (NB. not the
hairstyle!)
-
siansorkka
-
siansyltty
-
sikala
-
hog house. (NB. Also used figuratively
when speaking about the messiness of someone's room (what a friggin
pigsty!, etc.)!)
-
sikolätti
-
what a sikala consists of; pigsty,
pigpen
-
sikotauti
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