Joensuu
See also: joensuu
English edit
Proper noun edit
Joensuu
- A city and municipality, the capital of the North Karelia region, in eastern Finland.
Translations edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
joen (“river's”) + suu (“mouth”)
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Joensuu
- Joensuu (a city and municipality, the capital of the North Karelia region, in eastern Finland)
- Any of a number of villages in Finland.
- a Finnish surname from landscape
Declension edit
- (city): The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Joensuu" is Joensuussa.
Inflection of Joensuu (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Joensuu | Joensuut | ||
genitive | Joensuun | Joensuiden Joensuitten | ||
partitive | Joensuuta | Joensuita | ||
illative | Joensuuhun | Joensuihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Joensuu | Joensuut | ||
accusative | nom. | Joensuu | Joensuut | |
gen. | Joensuun | |||
genitive | Joensuun | Joensuiden Joensuitten | ||
partitive | Joensuuta | Joensuita | ||
inessive | Joensuussa | Joensuissa | ||
elative | Joensuusta | Joensuista | ||
illative | Joensuuhun | Joensuihin | ||
adessive | Joensuulla | Joensuilla | ||
ablative | Joensuulta | Joensuilta | ||
allative | Joensuulle | Joensuille | ||
essive | Joensuuna | Joensuina | ||
translative | Joensuuksi | Joensuiksi | ||
abessive | Joensuutta | Joensuitta | ||
instructive | — | Joensuin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Statistics edit
- Joensuu is the 401st (tied with 1 other surname) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 2,055 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.