rouva
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle Low German vrouwe.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rouva
- Mrs (title of a married woman)
- rouva Virtanen ― Mrs Virtanen
- madam (form of address for a married woman, a ranking female individual, or a not young female stranger)
- rouva puheenjohtaja ― madam speaker
- Anteeksi, rouva! Unohditte sateenvarjonne!
- Excuse me, madam! You forgot your umbrella!
- lady (a respectful word for a not young woman)
- Viereisessä pöydässä istui kaksi tyylikästä rouvaa.
- Two elegant ladies were sitting at the next table.
- (informal) wife
- Hän oli elokuvissa rouvansa kanssa.
- He was at the cinema with his wife.
- (card games) queen
- Synonyms: kuningatar, akka
Declension
[edit]Inflection of rouva (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | rouva | rouvat | |
genitive | rouvan | rouvien | |
partitive | rouvaa | rouvia | |
illative | rouvaan | rouviin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | rouva | rouvat | |
accusative | nom. | rouva | rouvat |
gen. | rouvan | ||
genitive | rouvan | rouvien rouvain rare | |
partitive | rouvaa | rouvia | |
inessive | rouvassa | rouvissa | |
elative | rouvasta | rouvista | |
illative | rouvaan | rouviin | |
adessive | rouvalla | rouvilla | |
ablative | rouvalta | rouvilta | |
allative | rouvalle | rouville | |
essive | rouvana | rouvina | |
translative | rouvaksi | rouviksi | |
abessive | rouvatta | rouvitta | |
instructive | — | rouvin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “rouva”, 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
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