Who is the "kuvernementtien talonpoika"?

p19 · Post by **p19** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 12:36 am

Who is the "kuvernementtien talonpoika"?

kuvernementtien ?? - it's not in my vocabulary. What is the nominativ?

Thank you

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priki · Post by **priki** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:10 am

Sounds like very old language.
kuvernementti = government.

kalmisto · Post by **kalmisto** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 4:34 pm

p19 wrote:Who is the "kuvernementtien talonpoika"?

kuvernementtien ?? - it's not in my vocabulary. What is the nominativ?

Thank you

To find the basic form of any conjugated Finnish word ( verb,noun,adjectif... ) you can use a morphological analyser of Finnish.

See this ! : http://www2.lingsoft.fi/cgi-bin/fintwol ... nementtien

kalmisto · Post by **kalmisto** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 4:50 pm

p19

"kuvernementti" is in this dictionary :
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/siv/sanatk.html

kuvernementti = hallintoalue eräissä maissa, mm.ennen Venäjällä ( an administrative district in certain countries, for instance in the old days in Russia )

"hallintoalue" in English :
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.o ... llintoalue

"kuvernementtien talonpoika" refers to farmers living in the kuvernementti areas

Hank W. · Post by **Hank W.** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 7:08 pm

A 'provincial farmer' would probably be modern. Old text you're at?

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