Sonkajärvi
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]sonka + järvi, possibly from Sami (either Inari Sami sogge (“far inside corner of a building”) or Northern Sami čoaggi (“lump”)), although this is not certain.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Sonkajärvi
- A municipality of Northern Savonia, Finland.
- (rare) a Finnish surname
Declension
[edit]The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Sonkajärvi" is Sonkajärvellä.
Inflection of Sonkajärvi (Kotus type 7/ovi, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Sonkajärvi | Sonkajärvet | |
genitive | Sonkajärven | Sonkajärvien | |
partitive | Sonkajärveä | Sonkajärviä | |
illative | Sonkajärveen | Sonkajärviin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Sonkajärvi | Sonkajärvet | |
accusative | nom. | Sonkajärvi | Sonkajärvet |
gen. | Sonkajärven | ||
genitive | Sonkajärven | Sonkajärvien | |
partitive | Sonkajärveä | Sonkajärviä | |
inessive | Sonkajärvessä | Sonkajärvissä | |
elative | Sonkajärvestä | Sonkajärvistä | |
illative | Sonkajärveen | Sonkajärviin | |
adessive | Sonkajärvellä | Sonkajärvillä | |
ablative | Sonkajärveltä | Sonkajärviltä | |
allative | Sonkajärvelle | Sonkajärville | |
essive | Sonkajärvenä | Sonkajärvinä | |
translative | Sonkajärveksi | Sonkajärviksi | |
abessive | Sonkajärvettä | Sonkajärvittä | |
instructive | — | Sonkajärvin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: Sonkajärvi
- → Swedish: Sonkajärvi
Statistics
[edit]- The surname Sonkajärvi belongs to 32 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
References
[edit]- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN
Categories:
- Finnish compound terms
- Finnish terms derived from Sami languages
- Finnish 4-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ærʋi
- Rhymes:Finnish/ærʋi/4 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- fi:Municipalities of Northern Savonia, Finland
- fi:Municipalities of Finland
- fi:Places in Northern Savonia, Finland
- fi:Places in Finland
- Finnish terms with rare senses
- Finnish surnames
- Finnish ovi-type nominals