virvonta
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]virvonta
- wishing another person health and happiness on Palm Sunday by tapping them lightly with a willow twig and chanting a rhyme; nowadays especially done door-to-door by children disguised as witches in order to get candy from people
Declension
[edit]Inflection of virvonta (Kotus type 9*J/kala, nt-nn gradation) | |||
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nominative | virvonta | virvonnat | |
genitive | virvonnan | virvontojen | |
partitive | virvontaa | virvontoja | |
illative | virvontaan | virvontoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | virvonta | virvonnat | |
accusative | nom. | virvonta | virvonnat |
gen. | virvonnan | ||
genitive | virvonnan | virvontojen virvontain rare | |
partitive | virvontaa | virvontoja | |
inessive | virvonnassa | virvonnoissa | |
elative | virvonnasta | virvonnoista | |
illative | virvontaan | virvontoihin | |
adessive | virvonnalla | virvonnoilla | |
ablative | virvonnalta | virvonnoilta | |
allative | virvonnalle | virvonnoille | |
essive | virvontana | virvontoina | |
translative | virvonnaksi | virvonnoiksi | |
abessive | virvonnatta | virvonnoitta | |
instructive | — | virvonnoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “virvonta”, 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 2023-07-04