Topias
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Vernacular form of the biblical (apocryphal) Tobias.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Topias
- a male given name
- 1864, Aleksis Kivi, Nummisuutarit, SKS, published 1956, act I:
- Oli eräs hurskas mies nimeltä Topias, ja hänellä poika, jonka tuli naimaan lähteä. Malta, Esko, että minäkin olen Topias ja on minulla poikakin, jonka myös on lähteminen kosioretkelle.
- There was a pious man named Topias, and he had a son who was leaving to get someone to marry. Let me say this, Esko, that I am Topias too and I too have a son that is leaving to find someone to woo.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Topias (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Topias | Topiakset | |
genitive | Topiaksen | Topiasten Topiaksien | |
partitive | Topiasta | Topiaksia | |
illative | Topiakseen | Topiaksiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Topias | Topiakset | |
accusative | nom. | Topias | Topiakset |
gen. | Topiaksen | ||
genitive | Topiaksen | Topiasten Topiaksien | |
partitive | Topiasta | Topiaksia | |
inessive | Topiaksessa | Topiaksissa | |
elative | Topiaksesta | Topiaksista | |
illative | Topiakseen | Topiaksiin | |
adessive | Topiaksella | Topiaksilla | |
ablative | Topiakselta | Topiaksilta | |
allative | Topiakselle | Topiaksille | |
essive | Topiaksena | Topiaksina | |
translative | Topiakseksi | Topiaksiksi | |
abessive | Topiaksetta | Topiaksitta | |
instructive | — | Topiaksin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Related terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- Topias is the 180th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 3,372 male individuals (and as a middle name to 5,195 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.