Jooseppi
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Vernacular form of biblical Joosef (“Joseph”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Jooseppi
- (now rare as a first name) a male given name
- 1870 Aleksis Kivi, Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers): Chapter 14 (Translation 1991 by Richard A. Impola):
- Tuli viimein pieni poikanen, pieni piimäparta Jooseppi, avasi oven, ja sisään astui Timo taakkoinensa, äänetönnä, katsoen oikeasti, rävähtämättä eteensä.
- Finally a boy, little milk-mustached Jooseppi, came and opened the door, and in stepped Timo with his load, not saying a word and staring unblinkingly straight ahead.
- 1870 Aleksis Kivi, Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers): Chapter 14 (Translation 1991 by Richard A. Impola):
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Jooseppi (Kotus type 5*B/risti, pp-p gradation) | |||
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nominative | Jooseppi | Joosepit | |
genitive | Joosepin | Jooseppien | |
partitive | Jooseppia | Jooseppeja | |
illative | Jooseppiin | Jooseppeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Jooseppi | Joosepit | |
accusative | nom. | Jooseppi | Joosepit |
gen. | Joosepin | ||
genitive | Joosepin | Jooseppien | |
partitive | Jooseppia | Jooseppeja | |
inessive | Joosepissa | Joosepeissa | |
elative | Joosepista | Joosepeista | |
illative | Jooseppiin | Jooseppeihin | |
adessive | Joosepilla | Joosepeilla | |
ablative | Joosepilta | Joosepeilta | |
allative | Joosepille | Joosepeille | |
essive | Jooseppina | Jooseppeina | |
translative | Joosepiksi | Joosepeiksi | |
abessive | Joosepitta | Joosepeitta | |
instructive | — | Joosepein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Related terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- The given name Jooseppi belongs to 57 male individuals (and as a middle name to 826 more, making it overwhelmingly more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.