faija
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Finnish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From dialectal variant of Swedish fader (“father”). Compare also Finnish äijä (“old man”) and Finnish muija (“old woman, hag; wife, girlfriend; young woman, chick”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]faija (colloquial)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of faija (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | faija | faijat | ||
genitive | faijan | faijojen | ||
partitive | faijaa | faijoja | ||
illative | faijaan | faijoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | faija | faijat | ||
accusative | nom. | faija | faijat | |
gen. | faijan | |||
genitive | faijan | faijojen faijain rare | ||
partitive | faijaa | faijoja | ||
inessive | faijassa | faijoissa | ||
elative | faijasta | faijoista | ||
illative | faijaan | faijoihin | ||
adessive | faijalla | faijoilla | ||
ablative | faijalta | faijoilta | ||
allative | faijalle | faijoille | ||
essive | faijana | faijoina | ||
translative | faijaksi | faijoiksi | ||
abessive | faijatta | faijoitta | ||
instructive | — | faijoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “faija”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02