English-Finnish translations for relative

• suhteellinen
  Suhteellinen köyhyys on tosin laskenut. Relative poverty has fallen sharply, though.
  Se on suhteellinen pieni rahamäärä. It is a relatively small amount of money.
  Suhteellinen tehokkuus ei ole syy evätä markkinoille pääsyä. Relative effectiveness is not a reason to deny access to the market.
• sukulainen
  Ei ole lapsenkaan kannalta välttämättä hyvä, että kuka tahansa vapaaehtoiseksi ilmoittautuva sukulainen voi toimia hänen huoltajanaan. It is not necessarily a good thing for the child either if just any relative can volunteer to take charge of him or her.
  Hänen turvallisuudestaan ollaan hyvin huolissaan: jotkut uskovat, että hänet on siepattu, toiset uskovat, että hän oli lordi Lucanin sukulainen. There are many concerns for his safety: some believed he had been kidnapped, others that he was a relative of Lord Lucan.
  Serkkuni Pekka on sukulaiseni, hän on isäni siskon poika.
• relatiivinen

Definition of relative

• Connected to or depending on something else; comparative
• Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form
• That relates to an antecedent
• Relevant; pertinent; related
• Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional
• Someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption
• A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages

Examples

• The relative URL /images/pic.jpg, when evaluated in the context of http://example.com/docs/pic.html, corresponds to the absolute URL http://example.com/images/pic.jpg
• relative to your earlier point about taxes
• Why do my relatives always talk about sex?

Related words

• relatives
• relatively
• correlative
• irrelative
• irrelatively
• relative clause
• relative pronoun
• relative key
• relative mood