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Rautjärvi

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English

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Proper noun

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Rautjärvi

  1. A municipality of South Karelia, Finland

Translations

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Finnish

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Etymology

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The town (and the surname) is named after the lake, which is raut- (iron) +‎ järvi (lake), due to the ferrous lake bed (the lake was a source of bog iron).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈrɑu̯tˌjærʋi/, [ˈrɑ̝u̯t̪ˌjærʋi]
  • Rhymes: -ærʋi
  • Hyphenation(key): Raut‧järvi

Proper noun

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Rautjärvi

  1. Rautjärvi
  2. a Finnish surname

Declension

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The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Rautjärvi" is Rautjärvellä.

Inflection of Rautjärvi (Kotus type 7/ovi, no gradation)
nominative Rautjärvi Rautjärvet
genitive Rautjärven Rautjärvien
partitive Rautjärveä Rautjärviä
illative Rautjärveen Rautjärviin
singular plural
nominative Rautjärvi Rautjärvet
accusative nom. Rautjärvi Rautjärvet
gen. Rautjärven
genitive Rautjärven Rautjärvien
partitive Rautjärveä Rautjärviä
inessive Rautjärvessä Rautjärvissä
elative Rautjärvestä Rautjärvistä
illative Rautjärveen Rautjärviin
adessive Rautjärvellä Rautjärvillä
ablative Rautjärveltä Rautjärviltä
allative Rautjärvelle Rautjärville
essive Rautjärvenä Rautjärvinä
translative Rautjärveksi Rautjärviksi
abessive Rautjärvettä Rautjärvittä
instructive Rautjärvin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of Rautjärvi (Kotus type 7/ovi, no gradation)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: Rautjärvi
  • Swedish: Rautjärvi

Statistics

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  • The surname Rautjärvi belongs to 99 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

References

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  1. ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN