meriahven
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]meri (“sea”) + ahven (“perch”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]meriahven
- sea bass, grouper (perciform fishes of the family Serranidae)
- used sometimes of common perch (Perca fluviatilis) that live in the brackish sea water of the Baltic Sea in order to differentiate from perch grown in fresh water
Declension
[edit]Inflection of meriahven (Kotus type 32/sisar, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | meriahven | meriahvenet | |
genitive | meriahvenen | meriahvenien meriahventen | |
partitive | meriahventa | meriahvenia | |
illative | meriahveneen | meriahveniin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | meriahven | meriahvenet | |
accusative | nom. | meriahven | meriahvenet |
gen. | meriahvenen | ||
genitive | meriahvenen | meriahvenien meriahventen | |
partitive | meriahventa | meriahvenia | |
inessive | meriahvenessa | meriahvenissa | |
elative | meriahvenesta | meriahvenista | |
illative | meriahveneen | meriahveniin | |
adessive | meriahvenella | meriahvenilla | |
ablative | meriahvenelta | meriahvenilta | |
allative | meriahvenelle | meriahvenille | |
essive | meriahvenena | meriahvenina | |
translative | meriahveneksi | meriahveniksi | |
abessive | meriahvenetta | meriahvenitta | |
instructive | — | meriahvenin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “meriahven”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03