vanahärra
Estonian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vanahärra (genitive vanahärra, partitive vanahärrat)
- used respectfully to address to an old gentleman and generally to an old man
- 1926-1933, Anton Hansen Tammsaare, chapter XIII, in Tõde ja õigus (Truth and Justice)[1], page 95:
- Ta käis mõisas vanahärra juures viljapuid kuulamas kambri otsa asutatava rohuaia tarvis ja härra lubas viljapuud jumalamuidu – peremehele rõõmuks, härrale mälestuseks, nõnda oli ta öelnud.
- He went to the old man's house to listen to the fruit trees at the end of the chamber he was founding and the lord promised the fruit trees as a godsend - for the pleasure of the landlord, in remembrance of the lord, so he said.
Declension
[edit]| Declension of vanahärra (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | vanahärra | vanahärrad | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | vanahärra | ||
| genitive | vanahärrade | ||
| partitive | vanahärrat | vanahärrasid | |
| illative | vanahärrasse | vanahärradesse | |
| inessive | vanahärras | vanahärrades | |
| elative | vanahärrast | vanahärradest | |
| allative | vanahärrale | vanahärradele | |
| adessive | vanahärral | vanahärradel | |
| ablative | vanahärralt | vanahärradelt | |
| translative | vanahärraks | vanahärradeks | |
| terminative | vanahärrani | vanahärradeni | |
| essive | vanahärrana | vanahärradena | |
| abessive | vanahärrata | vanahärradeta | |
| comitative | vanahärraga | vanahärradega | |