Soini
See also: soini
English edit
Proper noun edit
Soini
Translations edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse Sveinn; cognate to Swedish Sven, Norwegian Svein, Danish Svend.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Soini
- (uncountable) Soini (municipality)
- (Finnic mythology) A giant, son of Kaleva, in Finnish mythology.
- (now rare) a male given name
- a Finnish surname transferred from the given name derived from the given name
- Any of a number of places in Finland.
Declension edit
- (municipality): The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used when referring to a location; for example, "in Soini" is Soinissa.
Inflection of Soini (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Soini | Soinit | ||
genitive | Soinin | Soinien | ||
partitive | Soinia | Soineja | ||
illative | Soiniin | Soineihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Soini | Soinit | ||
accusative | nom. | Soini | Soinit | |
gen. | Soinin | |||
genitive | Soinin | Soinien | ||
partitive | Soinia | Soineja | ||
inessive | Soinissa | Soineissa | ||
elative | Soinista | Soineista | ||
illative | Soiniin | Soineihin | ||
adessive | Soinilla | Soineilla | ||
ablative | Soinilta | Soineilta | ||
allative | Soinille | Soineille | ||
essive | Soinina | Soineina | ||
translative | Soiniksi | Soineiksi | ||
abessive | Soinitta | Soineitta | ||
instructive | — | Soinein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Statistics edit
- Soini is the 613th (tied with 2 other names) most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 279 male individuals (and as a middle name to 125 more), and also belongs to 19 female individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
- Soini is the 368th most common surname in Finland, belonging to 2,218 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.