huoneisto

huone (“room”) +‎ -sto. Coined by A. J. Veänänen in 1859.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhuo̯nei̯sto/, [ˈhuo̞̯ne̞i̯s̠to̞]
• Rhymes: -uoneisto
• Syllabification^(key): huo‧neis‧to
• Hyphenation^(key): huo‧neis‧to

huoneisto

1. a place with multiple connected rooms that can act as a complete unit in some respect, whether residential, commercial, etc.; a suite of rooms, a set of rooms, etc.
2. apartment, flat (complete domicile occupying only part of a building)

   Synonyms: asuinhuoneisto (full term), asunto (most common)

• There is no single English translation for huoneisto. The correct translation therefore often depends on the context; there are even cases where it is simply translated as "rooms" in the plural.
• All of the rooms in a building could technically be called a huoneisto, but the term usually refers to parts of a building (with more than one huoneisto), e.g. apartments in an apartment building or rentable office spaces in an office building.

• asunto

• “huoneisto”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023