# Helsinki
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɛlˈsɪŋ.ki/
* enPR: hělʹsǐngʹkē
* Audio (US):(file)

### Proper noun

Helsinki
* The capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland.
    Synonym: (obsolete) Helsingfors
** 2005, Bill Clinton, My Life‎, 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.

#### Derived terms

* Helsinkian

#### Translations
## Afrikaans
### Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.

### Proper noun

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

#### Derived terms

* Helsinkiër
* Helsinkies

## Azerbaijani
### Proper noun

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

## Breton
### Proper noun

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

## Danish
### Pronunciation

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### Proper noun

Helsinki (?)
* Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)
    Synonym: (dated, rare) Helsingfors

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌɦɛlˈsiŋ.ki/, (less common) /ˈɦɛlˌsiŋ.ki/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: Hel‧sin‧ki

### Proper noun

Helsinki n
* Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

#### Synonyms

* Elsenfors (obsolete)

## Finnish
### Etymology

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 not held to be likely anymore (instead, the largest group seems to have been those from Uppland).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhelsiŋki/, [ˈhe̞ls̠iŋk̟i]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -elsiŋki
* Hyphenation: Hel‧sin‧ki

### Proper noun

Helsinki
* 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

#### Declension

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.
Possessive forms of Helsinki (Kotus type 5*G/risti, nk-ng gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
Helsinkini
accusative
nom.
Helsinkini
gen.
Helsinkini
genitive
Helsinkini
partitive
Helsinkiäni
inessive
Helsingissäni
elative
Helsingistäni
illative
Helsinkiini
adessive
Helsingilläni
ablative
Helsingiltäni
allative
Helsingilleni
essive
Helsinkinäni
translative
Helsingikseni
abessive
Helsingittäni
instructive
comitative
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
Helsinkisi
accusative
nom.
Helsinkisi
gen.
Helsinkisi
genitive
Helsinkisi
partitive
Helsinkiäsi
inessive
Helsingissäsi
elative
Helsingistäsi
illative
Helsinkiisi
adessive
Helsingilläsi
ablative
Helsingiltäsi
allative
Helsingillesi
essive
Helsinkinäsi
translative
Helsingiksesi
abessive
Helsingittäsi
instructive
comitative
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
Helsinkimme
accusative
nom.
Helsinkimme
gen.
Helsinkimme
genitive
Helsinkimme
partitive
Helsinkiämme
inessive
Helsingissämme
elative
Helsingistämme
illative
Helsinkiimme
adessive
Helsingillämme
ablative
Helsingiltämme
allative
Helsingillemme
essive
Helsinkinämme
translative
Helsingiksemme
abessive
Helsingittämme
instructive
comitative
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
Helsinkinne
accusative
nom.
Helsinkinne
gen.
Helsinkinne
genitive
Helsinkinne
partitive
Helsinkiänne
inessive
Helsingissänne
elative
Helsingistänne
illative
Helsinkiinne
adessive
Helsingillänne
ablative
Helsingiltänne
allative
Helsingillenne
essive
Helsinkinänne
translative
Helsingiksenne
abessive
Helsingittänne
instructive
comitative
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
Helsinkinsä
accusative
nom.
Helsinkinsä
gen.
Helsinkinsä
genitive
Helsinkinsä
partitive
Helsinkiään Helsinkiänsä
inessive
Helsingissään Helsingissänsä
elative
Helsingistään Helsingistänsä
illative
Helsinkiinsä
adessive
Helsingillään Helsingillänsä
ablative
Helsingiltään Helsingiltänsä
allative
Helsingilleen Helsingillensä
essive
Helsinkinään Helsinkinänsä
translative
Helsingikseen Helsingiksensä
abessive
Helsingittään Helsingittänsä
instructive
comitative

#### Derived terms

* helsinkiläinen
* Hesa
* Hesari

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛl.siŋ.ki/
* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Helsinki f
* Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Helsinki n (proper noun, genitive Helsinkis or (optionally with an article) Helsinki)
* Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈhɛlsiŋki]
* Hyphenation: Hel‧sin‧ki
* Rhymes: -ki

### Proper noun

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

#### Derived terms

* helsinki

## Icelandic
### Proper noun

Helsinki n (proper noun, indeclinable)
* Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

## Latvian
### Proper noun

Helsinki m pl (1st declension)
* Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

#### Declension
## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xɛlˈsiŋ.ki/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -iŋki
* Syllabification: Hel‧sin‧ki
* Homophone: helsinki

### Proper noun

Helsinki nvir pl (related adjective helsiński)
* Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

#### Derived terms

* helsinka
* helsińczyk

### Further reading

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

## Portuguese
### Proper noun

Helsinki f
* Alternative form of Helsinque: Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Proper noun

Hèlsinki m (Cyrillic spelling Хѐлсинки)
* Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

## Slovak
### Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɦɛɫsiŋki/

### Proper noun

Helsinki f pl (genitive singular Helsínk, declension pattern of žena)
* Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

#### Derived terms

* Helsinčan m
* Helsinčanka f
* helsinský

### References

* “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

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xelˈsinki/ [xelˈsĩŋ.ki]
* Rhymes: -inki
* Syllabification: Hel‧sin‧ki

### Proper noun

Helsinki ?
* Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

#### Related terms

* helsinguino

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Finnish Helsinki.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [hælˈsinci]
* Hyphenation: Hel‧sin‧ki

### Proper noun

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

#### Derived terms

* Helsinkili

## Võro
### Proper noun

Helsinki (genitive Helsinki, partitive Helsinkit)
* Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.