All languages combined word senses marked with topical category "Finnish punctuation marks"

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Total 16 word senses

• - (Punctuation) [Finnish] Delimits parts of compound words; when a part ends in the same vowel the next part starts with.
• - (Punctuation) [Finnish] Delimits parts of compound words; when the former part ends in a vowel and the next part starts with a vowel, to avoid ambiguity or to help readability.
• - (Punctuation) [Finnish] Delimits parts of compound words; when a part ends in a consonant and the next part starts with a vowel, to avoid ambiguity or to help readability.
• - (Punctuation) [Finnish] Delimits parts of compound words; in certain dvandva or coordinative compounds where the parts are considered 'equal'.
• - (Punctuation) [Finnish] Delimits parts of compound words; when at least one of the two parts; contains a space (a space is written before the hyphen if the previous part contains a space, and vice versa, but not both).
• - (Punctuation) [Finnish] Delimits parts of compound words; when at least one of the two parts; is a proper noun in the nominative case (unless it has been assimilated to the point it is no longer capitalized), chiefly in words that are not themselves proper nouns.
• - (Punctuation) [Finnish] Delimits parts of compound words; when at least one of the two parts; is a proper noun in the genitive case (unless it has been assimilated to the point it is no longer capitalized), for clarity and to avoid ambiguity.
• - (Punctuation) [Finnish] Delimits parts of compound words; when at least one of the two parts; is an abbreviation, acronym or initialism (optional if it is the final component and spelled in lowercase).
• - (Punctuation) [Finnish] Delimits parts of compound words; when at least one of the two parts; is a letter, number or symbol.
• - (Punctuation) [Finnish] Delimits parts of compound words; when at least one of the two parts; is a particle or a word treated as such.
• - (Punctuation) [Finnish] Delimits parts of compound words; when at least one of the two parts; is an unadapted loanword.
• - (Punctuation) [Finnish] Represents omission of repeated parts of compound words in a list ("suspended hyphen").
• : (Punctuation) [Finnish] Connects a suffix or clitic to a number, abbreviation, initialism or individual letter.
• `period` (Punctuation) [Finnish] Used to mark ordinal numbers, generally pronounced -s.
• ‐ (Punctuation) [Finnish] Alternative spelling of -
• ” (Punctuation) [Finnish] Starts and ends a quotation.

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