Helsinki

Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.

• IPA^(key): /hɛlˈsɪŋ.ki/
• enPR: hělʹsǐngʹkē

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Helsinki

2. The capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland.

   Synonym: (obsolete) Helsingfors

   • 2005, Bill Clinton, My Life‎^[1], volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 376–377:

     My doctors didn't want me to go to Helsinki, but staying home wasn't an option. Yeltsin had been reelected and NATO was about to vote to admit Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic; we had to have an agreement on how to proceed.

• Helsinkian

Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.

Helsinki

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

• Helsinkiër
• Helsinkies

Helsinki

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

Helsinki

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

Helsinki (?)

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

   Synonym: (dated, rare) Helsingfors

Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɦɛlˈsiŋ.ki/, (less common) /ˈɦɛlˌsiŋ.ki/, /-sɪŋ-/

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• Hyphenation: Hel‧sin‧ki

Helsinki n

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

• Elsenfors (obsolete)

Borrowed from vernacular Swedish Helsinge, itself probably derived from *hälsing- (found in e.g. Hälsingland, Helsingborg ~ Hälsingborg), a derivative of hals (literally “neck”) (perhaps Old Swedish hals > hälsinge), here referring to a narrow part of a flowing body of water. Helsinki is located on the delta of the river Vantaa, so the name would refer to the rapids of that river. Indeed, Vanhankaupunginkoski, the rapids around which Helsinki was founded, was called Helsinge fors (literally “Helsinki rapids”) in older sources; this is also the origin of the current Swedish name Helsingfors.

In the past the city was considered to have been named after the Swedish province of Hälsingland, on the grounds that Helsinki would have initially been settled by people from Hälsingland, but this is no longer considered likely (instead, the largest group seems to have been those from Uppland).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhelsiŋki/, [ˈhe̞ls̠iŋk̟i]

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• Rhymes: -elsiŋki
• Syllabification^(key): Hel‧sin‧ki
• Hyphenation^(key): Hel‧sin‧ki

Helsinki

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

   Synonyms: (abbreviation) Hki, (colloquial, Helsinki) Stadi, (colloquial, rest of Finland) Hesa

The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Helsinki" is Helsingissä.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɛl.siŋ.ki/

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Helsinki f

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛlzɪŋki/, (less often also) /hɛlˈzɪŋki/

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Helsinki n (proper noun, genitive Helsinkis or (optionally with an article) Helsinki)

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

   Helsinki ist die nördlichste Hauptstadt auf dem europäischen Kontinent.

   Helsinki is the northernmost capital city on the European continent.

   Was heißt Sonnenuntergang auf Finnisch? – ? – Helsinki.

   (literally, “What is sunset in Finnish? – ? – Helsinki.”)

   A Kalauer (“lame pun”) based on hell (“light, bright”) and sinken (“to sink”). Here always stressed on the second syllable.

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɛlsiŋki]
• Hyphenation: Hel‧sin‧ki
• Rhymes: -ki

Helsinki

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

• helsinki

Helsinki n (proper noun, indeclinable)

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

Helsinki m pl (1st declension)

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.

• IPA^(key): /xɛlˈsiŋ.ki/

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• Rhymes: -iŋki
• Syllabification: Hel‧sin‧ki
• Homophone: helsinki

Helsinki nvir pl (related adjective helsiński)

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

• Helsinki in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Helsinki in PWN's encyclopedia

Helsinki f

1. (proscribed) alternative spelling of Helsinque

The Portuguese-Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 recommends the use of nativized placenames (instead of unadapted borrowings or partial calques) if these are established in the language. As such, the forms Helsinque or Helsínquia are preferred.

Hèlsinki m inan (Cyrillic spelling Хѐлсинки)

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɛɫsiŋki/

Helsinki f pl (genitive singular Helsínk, declension pattern of žena)

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

• Helsinčan m
• Helsinčanka f
• helsinský

• “Helsinki”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /xɛ̀ːlsinki/

Hélsinki m pl

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

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Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	Hélsinki
genitive	Hélsinkov
	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Hélsinki
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Hélsinkov
dative (dajȃlnik)	Hélsinkom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Hélsinke
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Hélsinkih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Hélsinki

• Hélsinčan / Hélsinčanka
• hélsinski

• “Helsinki”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “Helsinki”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

• IPA^(key): /xelˈsinki/ [xelˈsĩŋ.ki]
• Rhymes: -inki
• Syllabification: Hel‧sin‧ki

Helsinki ?

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

From Finnish Helsinki.

• IPA^(key): [hælˈsinci]
• Hyphenation: Hel‧sin‧ki

Helsinki

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

• Helsinkili

Helsinki (genitive Helsinki, partitive Helsinkit)

1. Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

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