Loviisa
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Swedish Lovisa, cognate to English Louisa and Louise. In Finnish, towns named after individuals are often left as is. Compare Pietari (“St Petersburg”), Antrea and Mikkeli.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Loviisa
- a female given name
- A town on the southeast coast of Finland, named in 1752 for Queen Lovisa Ulrika of Sweden.
Declension
[edit]The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Loviisa" is Loviisassa.
Inflection of Loviisa (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Loviisa | Loviisat | |
genitive | Loviisan | Loviisoiden Loviisoitten Loviisojen | |
partitive | Loviisaa | Loviisoita Loviisoja | |
illative | Loviisaan | Loviisoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Loviisa | Loviisat | |
accusative | nom. | Loviisa | Loviisat |
gen. | Loviisan | ||
genitive | Loviisan | Loviisoiden Loviisoitten Loviisojen Loviisain rare | |
partitive | Loviisaa | Loviisoita Loviisoja | |
inessive | Loviisassa | Loviisoissa | |
elative | Loviisasta | Loviisoista | |
illative | Loviisaan | Loviisoihin | |
adessive | Loviisalla | Loviisoilla | |
ablative | Loviisalta | Loviisoilta | |
allative | Loviisalle | Loviisoille | |
essive | Loviisana | Loviisoina | |
translative | Loviisaksi | Loviisoiksi | |
abessive | Loviisatta | Loviisoitta | |
instructive | — | Loviisoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- Loviisa is the 586th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 488 female individuals (and as a middle name to 2,660 more, making it much more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- Finnish terms borrowed from Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/oʋiːsɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/oʋiːsɑ/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- fi:Towns in Finland
- fi:Places in Finland
- Finnish katiska-type nominals
- fi:Municipalities of Finland