kaivaja
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
kaivaa (“to dig, excavate”) + -ja (“-er”)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kaivaja
- digger (one who digs)
- kullankaivaja ― gold digger
- excavator (one who excavates)
- miner (any of the South American ground-dwelling birds of the genus Geositta)
Declension edit
Inflection of kaivaja (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | kaivaja | kaivajat | ||
genitive | kaivajan | kaivajien | ||
partitive | kaivajaa | kaivajia | ||
illative | kaivajaan | kaivajiin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | kaivaja | kaivajat | ||
accusative | nom. | kaivaja | kaivajat | |
gen. | kaivajan | |||
genitive | kaivajan | kaivajien kaivajainrare | ||
partitive | kaivajaa | kaivajia | ||
inessive | kaivajassa | kaivajissa | ||
elative | kaivajasta | kaivajista | ||
illative | kaivajaan | kaivajiin | ||
adessive | kaivajalla | kaivajilla | ||
ablative | kaivajalta | kaivajilta | ||
allative | kaivajalle | kaivajille | ||
essive | kaivajana | kaivajina | ||
translative | kaivajaksi | kaivajiksi | ||
abessive | kaivajatta | kaivajitta | ||
instructive | — | kaivajin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Hyponyms edit
- (bird of the genus Geositta):
Derived terms edit
compounds
Further reading edit
- “kaivaja”, 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 2023-07-02