ruoka

Etymology
From, borrowed from ("care, attention", later ). Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare.

Noun

 * 1) food any substance consumed by living organisms to sustain life
 * 2) meal food that is prepared and eaten
 * 1) meal food that is prepared and eaten
 * 1) meal food that is prepared and eaten

Usage notes
Both of the two ways of inflecting presented below are regarded as equally acceptable by Kotus, an authority in Finnish language. In practice, the former declension is more common in written language while the latter is more common in spoken language. The pronunciation almost always matches the latter one, however.