Terttu
Appearance
See also: terttu
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Plant name from terttu (“cluster”), created at the end of the 19th century.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Terttu
- a female given name
- 2005, Jukka-Pekka Palviainen, Hedelmäpeli, Johnny Kniga, →ISBN, page 103:
- Hän kertoi olevansa Terttu. Ei mikään herran Terttu, vaan ihan tavallinen Terttu vaan. Hän laski kätensä reisillemme ja kertoi luottamuksellisesti, että hänen poikaystävänsä haluaisi hänen ottavan silikonit rintoihinsa.
- She told her name was Terttu. Not some herran Terttu, just a normal Terttu. She put her hand on our thighs and told us confidentially that his boyfriend wanted her to get her breasts siliconed.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Terttu (Kotus type 1*C/valo, tt-t gradation) | |||
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nominative | Terttu | Tertut | |
genitive | Tertun | Terttujen | |
partitive | Terttua | Terttuja | |
illative | Terttuun | Terttuihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Terttu | Tertut | |
accusative | nom. | Terttu | Tertut |
gen. | Tertun | ||
genitive | Tertun | Terttujen | |
partitive | Terttua | Terttuja | |
inessive | Tertussa | Tertuissa | |
elative | Tertusta | Tertuista | |
illative | Terttuun | Terttuihin | |
adessive | Tertulla | Tertuilla | |
ablative | Tertulta | Tertuilta | |
allative | Tertulle | Tertuille | |
essive | Terttuna | Terttuina | |
translative | Tertuksi | Tertuiksi | |
abessive | Tertutta | Tertuitta | |
instructive | — | Tertuin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
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Related terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- Terttu is the 48th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 12,713 female individuals (and as a middle name to 4,200 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.