Pistoketta

Pistoketta is the partitive singular form of the Finnish noun pistoke, which commonly denotes an electrical plug, socket or connector. As a grammatical form, pistoketta appears in sentences that require the partitive case, including expressions of partialness, unbounded quantity, ongoing action, negation and certain verbs that govern the partitive (for example tarvita, etsiä).

In everyday usage pistoke refers to devices used to connect electrical equipment to power sources or to join cables and interfaces; pistoketta therefore appears in practical contexts such as asking for or searching for a plug or adapter. Example phrases include Tarvitsen pistoketta (I need a plug) and Etsin pistoketta johon liittää laite (I am looking for a plug to attach the device).

Morphologically, pistoketta derives from the nominative pistoke; other forms include genitive pistokkeen and plural pistokkeet. The word pistoke itself is related to the verb pistää (to insert), reflecting the function of inserting a plug into a socket.

Because pistoketta is a grammatical form rather than a dictionary headword, it is encountered primarily within inflected Finnish sentences and may be ambiguous without context, where the intended meaning can range from a specific plug to a portion or unspecified amount of a referent associated with pistoke.