Теннессі

• IPA^(key): [tenːeˈsʲːi]

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Теннессі́ • (Tennessí) m inan (indeclinable, relational adjective теннессі́йський)

1. Tennessee (a state of the United States)

Теннессі́ • (Tennessí) f inan (indeclinable, relational adjective теннессі́йський)

1. Tennessee, Tennessee River (a river in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky, United States, that flows from eastern Tennessee into the Ohio River)

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, Теннессі 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.