pakkanen

frost / freezing temperature

🗣 pak-ka-nen

📝 On pakkanen = it's below zero. Very common in Finnish winter. 'Pakkasen puolella' = below freezing.

Word Forms & Endings

Form Meaning Grammar
pakkanen frost / freezing temperature (base form)
pakkasen of the frost genitive
pakkasta frost (partitive) partitive
pakkasen puolella below freezing fixed expression

Example Phrases

On kova pakkanen.

It is severely freezing.

Tänään on kaksikymmentä astetta pakkasta.

Today it is minus twenty degrees.

Tarvitset hanskat, on pakkasen puolella.

You need gloves, it's below freezing.