tuskin
Finnish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈtuskin/, [ˈt̪us̠k̟in]
- Rhymes: -uskin
- Syllabification(key): tus‧kin
- Hyphenation(key): tus‧kin
Adverb
[edit]tuskin
- hardly; barely, scarcely
- Vieras oli tuskin ehtinyt poistua, kun oveen jälleen koputettiin.
- The guest had just barely left when there was another knock on the door.
- Maassa, jossa kilpailua on tuskin nimeksikään, on helppo toimia kauppiaan ehdoin.
- It's easy to operate on the merchant's terms in a country with barely any competition to speak of.
- probably not, likely not
- Tuskin niin tapahtuu.
- That probably will not happen.
Interjection
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Noun
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Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tuskin”, 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