# supermarket
## English
### Etymology

American English, super- +‎ market, 1933.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌsuːpəˈmɑːkɪt/
* Audio (UK):(file)

### Noun

supermarket (plural supermarkets)
* A large self-service store that sells groceries and, usually, medications, household goods, and/or clothing.
    Coordinate terms: hypermarket, superstore
    I went to the supermarket to buy some food.
** 2025 January 29, Lucy Hooker, “Coca-Cola recalls drinks in UK due to chemical levels”, in BBC News‎:Cans of Coca-Cola Original Taste, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, Diet Coke, and Sprite Zero sent to cafes and restaurants are being withdrawn as well as 6x250ml Appletiser multipacks sent to UK supermarkets.
* A chain of such stores.
* (figurative) A one-stop shop; a place offering a range of products or services.
** 2011, Faith Glasgow, Personal Finance and Investing All-in-One For Dummies:If you know what you want by filtering down the 1,600 or so trusts to a short list and then studying the information on each via online sources, then you can buy your trust and get all or nearly all of the commission back into your bank account via an Internet investment supermarket. Here, you select your fund, decide whether you want it as an Individual Savings Account (ISA), and pay for it with a credit card.
** 2024 February 20, Fiona Vera-Gray, quoting Almina, “‘Everything is hairless’: what 100 women taught me about porn and body confidence”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:Almina grew up in the age of the internet and the infinite supermarket of pornography it provides.

#### Derived terms

* social supermarket

#### Descendants

* → Armenian: սուպերմարկետ (supermarket)
* → Bulgarian: суперма́ркет (supermárket)
* → Czech: supermarket
* → Estonian: supermarket
* → Finnish: supermarket, supermarketti
* → Hindi: सुपरमार्केट (suparmārkeṭ)
* → Georgian: სუპერმარკეტი (suṗermarḳeṭi)
* → Italian: supermarket
* → Japanese: スーパーマーケット (sūpāmāketto)
* → Korean: 슈퍼마켓 (syupeomaket)
* → Macedonian: суперма́ркет (supermárket)
* → Mongolian:
    Cyrillic script: супермаркет (supermarket)
    Mongolian script: ᠰᠦᠫᠧᠷᠮᠠᠷᠻᠧᠲ᠋ (süpērmarkēt)
* → Polish: supermarket
* → Romanian: supermarket
* → Russian: суперма́ркет (supermárket)
** → Kazakh: супермаркет (supermarket)
** → Kyrgyz: супермаркет (supermarket)
** → Tajik: супермаркет (supermarket)
** → Turkmen: supermarket
** → Uzbek: supermarket
* → Thai: ซูเปอร์มาร์เก็ต (suu-bpə̂ə-maa-gêt)
* → Turkish: süpermarket
* → Urdu: سُپَر مارْکیٹ (supar mārkeṭ)

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “supermarket”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Further reading

* supermarket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Czech
### Etymology

Borrowed from English supermarket.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsupɛrmarkɛt]

### Noun

supermarket m inan
* supermarket

#### See also

* samoobsluha

### Further reading

* “supermarket”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
* supermarket in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

## Estonian
### Etymology

From English supermarket.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsuperˌmɑrket/, [ˈsupˑerˌmɑrketˑ]
* Rhymes: -ɑrket
* Hyphenation: su‧per‧mar‧ket

### Noun

supermarket (genitive supermarketi, partitive supermarketit)
* supermarket (a large store offering food and industrial goods)

#### Declension
### References

* supermarket in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
* “supermarket”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

## Finnish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English supermarket.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsuperˌmɑrket/, [ˈs̠upe̞rˌmɑ̝rk̟e̞t̪]
* Rhymes: -ɑrket
* Hyphenation: super‧market

### Noun

supermarket
* Alternative form of supermarketti.

#### Declension

Possessive forms of supermarket (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
supermarketini
supermarketini
accusative
nom.
supermarketini
supermarketini
gen.
supermarketini
genitive
supermarketini
supermarketieni
partitive
supermarketiani
supermarketejani
inessive
supermarketissani
supermarketeissani
elative
supermarketistani
supermarketeistani
illative
supermarketiini
supermarketeihini
adessive
supermarketillani
supermarketeillani
ablative
supermarketiltani
supermarketeiltani
allative
supermarketilleni
supermarketeilleni
essive
supermarketinani
supermarketeinani
translative
supermarketikseni
supermarketeikseni
abessive
supermarketittani
supermarketeittani
instructive
comitative
—supermarketeineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
supermarketisi
supermarketisi
accusative
nom.
supermarketisi
supermarketisi
gen.
supermarketisi
genitive
supermarketisi
supermarketiesi
partitive
supermarketiasi
supermarketejasi
inessive
supermarketissasi
supermarketeissasi
elative
supermarketistasi
supermarketeistasi
illative
supermarketiisi
supermarketeihisi
adessive
supermarketillasi
supermarketeillasi
ablative
supermarketiltasi
supermarketeiltasi
allative
supermarketillesi
supermarketeillesi
essive
supermarketinasi
supermarketeinasi
translative
supermarketiksesi
supermarketeiksesi
abessive
supermarketittasi
supermarketeittasi
instructive
comitative
—supermarketeinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
supermarketimme
supermarketimme
accusative
nom.
supermarketimme
supermarketimme
gen.
supermarketimme
genitive
supermarketimme
supermarketiemme
partitive
supermarketiamme
supermarketejamme
inessive
supermarketissamme
supermarketeissamme
elative
supermarketistamme
supermarketeistamme
illative
supermarketiimme
supermarketeihimme
adessive
supermarketillamme
supermarketeillamme
ablative
supermarketiltamme
supermarketeiltamme
allative
supermarketillemme
supermarketeillemme
essive
supermarketinamme
supermarketeinamme
translative
supermarketiksemme
supermarketeiksemme
abessive
supermarketittamme
supermarketeittamme
instructive
comitative
—supermarketeinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
supermarketinne
supermarketinne
accusative
nom.
supermarketinne
supermarketinne
gen.
supermarketinne
genitive
supermarketinne
supermarketienne
partitive
supermarketianne
supermarketejanne
inessive
supermarketissanne
supermarketeissanne
elative
supermarketistanne
supermarketeistanne
illative
supermarketiinne
supermarketeihinne
adessive
supermarketillanne
supermarketeillanne
ablative
supermarketiltanne
supermarketeiltanne
allative
supermarketillenne
supermarketeillenne
essive
supermarketinanne
supermarketeinanne
translative
supermarketiksenne
supermarketeiksenne
abessive
supermarketittanne
supermarketeittanne
instructive
comitative
—supermarketeinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
supermarketinsa
supermarketinsa
accusative
nom.
supermarketinsa
supermarketinsa
gen.
supermarketinsa
genitive
supermarketinsa
supermarketiensa
partitive
supermarketiaan supermarketiansa
supermarketejaan supermarketejansa
inessive
supermarketissaan supermarketissansa
supermarketeissaan supermarketeissansa
elative
supermarketistaan supermarketistansa
supermarketeistaan supermarketeistansa
illative
supermarketiinsa
supermarketeihinsa
adessive
supermarketillaan supermarketillansa
supermarketeillaan supermarketeillansa
ablative
supermarketiltaan supermarketiltansa
supermarketeiltaan supermarketeiltansa
allative
supermarketilleen supermarketillensa
supermarketeilleen supermarketeillensa
essive
supermarketinaan supermarketinansa
supermarketeinaan supermarketeinansa
translative
supermarketikseen supermarketiksensa
supermarketeikseen supermarketeiksensa
abessive
supermarketittaan supermarketittansa
supermarketeittaan supermarketeittansa
instructive
comitative
—supermarketeineen supermarketeinensa :

### Further reading

* “supermarket”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English supermarket.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /su.perˈmar.ket/
* Rhymes: -arket
* Hyphenation: su‧per‧màr‧ket

### Noun

supermarket m (invariable)
* supermarket

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English supermarket.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /su.pɛrˈmar.kɛt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -arkɛt
* Syllabification: su‧per‧mar‧ket

### Noun

supermarket m inan
* supermarket

#### Derived terms

* supermarketowy

### Further reading

* supermarket in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* supermarket in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English supermarket.

### Noun

supermarket n (plural supermarketuri)
* supermarket