Kangas
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From kangas (“type of boreal forest”); from the region of Ostrobothnia.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Kangas
- a Finnish surname
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Kangas (Kotus type 41*G/vieras, nk-ng gradation) | |||
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nominative | Kangas | Kankaat | |
genitive | Kankaan | Kankaiden Kankaitten | |
partitive | Kangasta | Kankaita | |
illative | Kankaaseen | Kankaisiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Kangas | Kankaat | |
accusative | nom. | Kangas | Kankaat |
gen. | Kankaan | ||
genitive | Kankaan | Kankaiden Kankaitten Kangasten rare | |
partitive | Kangasta | Kankaita | |
inessive | Kankaassa | Kankaissa | |
elative | Kankaasta | Kankaista | |
illative | Kankaaseen | Kankaisiin Kankaihin rare | |
adessive | Kankaalla | Kankailla | |
ablative | Kankaalta | Kankailta | |
allative | Kankaalle | Kankaille | |
essive | Kankaana | Kankaina | |
translative | Kankaaksi | Kankaiksi | |
abessive | Kankaatta | Kankaitta | |
instructive | — | Kankain | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
[edit]- Kangas is the 106th most common surname in Finland, belonging to 5,825 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.