Rautjärvi
English edit
Proper noun edit
Rautjärvi
- A municipality of South Karelia, Finland
Translations edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
The town (and the surname) is named after the lake, which is raut- (“iron”) + järvi (“lake”), due to the ferrous lake bed (the lake was a source of bog iron).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Rautjärvi
Declension edit
The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Rautjärvi" is Rautjärvellä.
Inflection of Rautjärvi (Kotus type 7/ovi, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Rautjärvi | Rautjärvet | ||
genitive | Rautjärven | Rautjärvien | ||
partitive | Rautjärveä | Rautjärviä | ||
illative | Rautjärveen | Rautjärviin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Rautjärvi | Rautjärvet | ||
accusative | nom. | Rautjärvi | Rautjärvet | |
gen. | Rautjärven | |||
genitive | Rautjärven | Rautjärvien | ||
partitive | Rautjärveä | Rautjärviä | ||
inessive | Rautjärvessä | Rautjärvissä | ||
elative | Rautjärvestä | Rautjärvistä | ||
illative | Rautjärveen | Rautjärviin | ||
adessive | Rautjärvellä | Rautjärvillä | ||
ablative | Rautjärveltä | Rautjärviltä | ||
allative | Rautjärvelle | Rautjärville | ||
essive | Rautjärvenä | Rautjärvinä | ||
translative | Rautjärveksi | Rautjärviksi | ||
abessive | Rautjärvettä | Rautjärvittä | ||
instructive | — | Rautjärvin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Statistics edit
- The surname Rautjärvi belongs to 99 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
References edit
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN