Virve
See also: virve
Estonian edit
Etymology edit
Estonian virve (“flicker, ripple”), virves (“shoot,sprout”)
Proper noun edit
Virve
- a female given name
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Estonian Virve. Cognate to Virpi.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Virve
- a female given name
Declension edit
Inflection of Virve (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Virve | Virvet | ||
genitive | Virven | Virvejen | ||
partitive | Virveä | Virvejä | ||
illative | Virveen | Virveihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Virve | Virvet | ||
accusative | nom. | Virve | Virvet | |
gen. | Virven | |||
genitive | Virven | Virvejen Virveinrare | ||
partitive | Virveä | Virvejä | ||
inessive | Virvessä | Virveissä | ||
elative | Virvestä | Virveistä | ||
illative | Virveen | Virveihin | ||
adessive | Virvellä | Virveillä | ||
ablative | Virveltä | Virveiltä | ||
allative | Virvelle | Virveille | ||
essive | Virvenä | Virveinä | ||
translative | Virveksi | Virveiksi | ||
abessive | Virvettä | Virveittä | ||
instructive | — | Virvein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics edit
- Virve is the 258th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 2,018 female individuals (and as a middle name to 269 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.