rahtu
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown. There are no known cognates, and theories about borrowing from Germanic or Baltic have been discarded.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rahtu
Usage notes
[edit]Nowadays mostly used in idioms, such as the one mentioned above.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of rahtu (Kotus type 1*F/valo, t-d gradation) | |||
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nominative | rahtu | rahdut | |
genitive | rahdun | rahtujen | |
partitive | rahtua | rahtuja | |
illative | rahtuun | rahtuihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | rahtu | rahdut | |
accusative | nom. | rahtu | rahdut |
gen. | rahdun | ||
genitive | rahdun | rahtujen | |
partitive | rahtua | rahtuja | |
inessive | rahdussa | rahduissa | |
elative | rahdusta | rahduista | |
illative | rahtuun | rahtuihin | |
adessive | rahdulla | rahduilla | |
ablative | rahdulta | rahduilta | |
allative | rahdulle | rahduille | |
essive | rahtuna | rahtuina | |
translative | rahduksi | rahduiksi | |
abessive | rahdutta | rahduitta | |
instructive | — | rahduin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “rahtu”, 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