luokka

Originally a variant of luokki. The meaning has abstracted from "shaft bow" → "group of things (attached with a shaft bow)" → "group, class".

• IPA^(key): /ˈluo̯kːɑ/, [ˈluo̞̯kːɑ]
• Rhymes: -uokːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): luok‧ka

luokka

1. class (group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes)
2. class, social class (social grouping, based on job, wealth, inheritance etc.)

   luokkataistelu ― class struggle

3. class (category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation)

   turistiluokka, ensimmäinen luokka ― economy class, first class

4. grade (level of pre-collegiate education)

   Hän on kahdeksannella luokalla.

   He's in the eighth grade

   jättää luokalle ― to retain (hold back a student)

   jäädä luokalle ― to be retained (required to repeat a year)

5. class, school class (group of pre-college students who regularly attend lectures together)
6. class (group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher)
7. classroom
8. (statistics) class (grouping of data values in an interval)
9. (mathematics) class (collection of sets definable by a shared property)
10. (taxonomy) class
11. (programming) class
12. Alternative form of luokki (“shaft bow”).
13. (by extension, dialectal) anything bent over

    Ne oli ne puut ihan luokalla.

    Those trees were all bent over.

• (social class): yhteiskuntaluokka
• (classroom): luokkahuone