Міссісіпі

• IPA^(key): [mʲisʲːiˈsʲipʲi]

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Міссісі́пі • (Missisípi) f inan (indeclinable, relational adjective міссісі́пський)

1. Mississippi, Mississippi River (a major river in the United States, flowing southward from north-central Minnesota through Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Minnesota and Louisiana, emptying into the Gulf of Mexico)

Міссісі́пі • (Missisípi) m inan (indeclinable, relational adjective міссісі́пський)

1. Mississippi (a state of the United States)

In Ukrainian, non-Slavic proper nouns and most loanwords ending in -о or -і are indeclinable and take on the gender of their superordinate. Thus, Міссісіпі is masculine when referring to the state because штат (štat, “state”) is masculine, and feminine when referring to the river because ріка (rika, “river”) is feminine.