Iivari
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Old Norse Ívarr. Akin to English Ivor
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Iivari
- a male given name
- 1864, Aleksis Kivi, Nummisuutarit, SKS, published 1956, act I:
- Mutta eipä näy vielä Iivaria kotona, ja eilän läksi hän jo kylään, se noiduttu penikka; mutta tuleppas sieltä, niin pamppuni selkäs taasen pehmittämän pitää, sen lupaan.
- But still isn't Iivari home, and yesterday he went down to the village, that damned brat, but once he gets back, I'll soften his back again with my stick, that I can promise.
- The letter I in the Finnish spelling alphabet.
- a Finnish surname transferred from the given name
Declension edit
Inflection of Iivari (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Iivari | Iivarit | ||
genitive | Iivarin | Iivarien Iivareiden Iivareitten | ||
partitive | Iivaria | Iivareita Iivareja | ||
illative | Iivariin | Iivareihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Iivari | Iivarit | ||
accusative | nom. | Iivari | Iivarit | |
gen. | Iivarin | |||
genitive | Iivarin | Iivarien Iivareiden Iivareitten | ||
partitive | Iivaria | Iivareita Iivareja | ||
inessive | Iivarissa | Iivareissa | ||
elative | Iivarista | Iivareista | ||
illative | Iivariin | Iivareihin | ||
adessive | Iivarilla | Iivareilla | ||
ablative | Iivarilta | Iivareilta | ||
allative | Iivarille | Iivareille | ||
essive | Iivarina | Iivareina | ||
translative | Iivariksi | Iivareiksi | ||
abessive | Iivaritta | Iivareitta | ||
instructive | — | Iivarein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
Statistics edit
- Iivari is the 395th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 757 male individuals (and as a middle name to 3,969 more, making it much more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
- Iivari is the 2016th (tied with 2 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 416 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.