"-" meaning in Finnish

See - in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Punctuation

Head templates: {{head|fi|punctuation mark}} -
  1. Delimits parts of compound words
    when a part ends in the same vowel the next part starts with.
    Tags: punctuation
    Sense id: --fi-punct-Zw7jDek3 Categories (other): Omitted translation in the main namespace
  2. Delimits parts of compound words
    (optional) when the former part ends in a vowel and the next part starts with a vowel, to avoid ambiguity or to help readability.
    Tags: punctuation
    Sense id: --fi-punct-RH3~9GLw Categories (other): Omitted translation in the main namespace
  3. Delimits parts of compound words
    (optional) when a part ends in a consonant and the next part starts with a vowel, to avoid ambiguity or to help readability.
    Tags: punctuation
    Sense id: --fi-punct-tq~MYoX1 Categories (other): Omitted translation in the main namespace
  4. Delimits parts of compound words
    in certain dvandva or coordinative compounds where the parts are considered 'equal'.
    Tags: punctuation
    Sense id: --fi-punct-4nsCbFwV Categories (other): Omitted translation in the main namespace
  5. 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).
    Tags: punctuation
    Sense id: --fi-punct-i6uixlj8 Categories (other): Omitted translation in the main namespace
  6. 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.
    Tags: punctuation
    Sense id: --fi-punct-YY~XbqW5 Categories (other): Omitted translation in the main namespace
  7. Delimits parts of compound words
    when at least one of the two parts
    (optional) 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.
    Tags: punctuation
    Sense id: --fi-punct-BImDl5JM Categories (other): Omitted translation in the main namespace
  8. 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).
    Tags: punctuation
    Sense id: --fi-punct-kOikOfVL Categories (other): Omitted translation in the main namespace
  9. Delimits parts of compound words
    when at least one of the two parts
    is a letter, number or symbol.
    Tags: punctuation Categories (topical): Finnish punctuation marks
    Sense id: --fi-punct-5HxW1p17 Disambiguation of Finnish punctuation marks: 5 5 5 3 16 7 7 5 22 5 5 13 2 Categories (other): Omitted translation in the main namespace
  10. Delimits parts of compound words
    when at least one of the two parts
    is a particle or a word treated as such.
    Tags: punctuation
    Sense id: --fi-punct-hlYmIqg5 Categories (other): Omitted translation in the main namespace
  11. Delimits parts of compound words
    when at least one of the two parts
    (in some cases) is an unadapted loanword.
    Tags: in some cases, punctuation
    Sense id: --fi-punct-uNS7xP8k
  12. Represents omission of repeated parts of compound words in a list ("suspended hyphen"). Tags: punctuation
    Sense id: --fi-punct-1uBkT2uH
  13. Used for hyphenation or splitting words across lines. Tags: punctuation
    Sense id: --fi-punct-qkbTUppR

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