Loviisa
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From Swedish Lovisa, cognate to English Louisa and Louise. In Finnish, towns named after individuals are often left as is. Compare Pietari (“St Petersburg”), Antrea and Mikkeli.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Loviisa
- a female given name
- A town on the southeast coast of Finland, named in 1752 for Queen Lovisa Ulrika of Sweden.
Declension edit
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Loviisa" is Loviisassa.
Inflection of Loviisa (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Loviisa | Loviisat | ||
genitive | Loviisan | Loviisoiden Loviisoitten Loviisojen | ||
partitive | Loviisaa | Loviisoita Loviisoja | ||
illative | Loviisaan | Loviisoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Loviisa | Loviisat | ||
accusative | nom. | Loviisa | Loviisat | |
gen. | Loviisan | |||
genitive | Loviisan | Loviisoiden Loviisoitten Loviisojen Loviisainrare | ||
partitive | Loviisaa | Loviisoita Loviisoja | ||
inessive | Loviisassa | Loviisoissa | ||
elative | Loviisasta | Loviisoista | ||
illative | Loviisaan | Loviisoihin | ||
adessive | Loviisalla | Loviisoilla | ||
ablative | Loviisalta | Loviisoilta | ||
allative | Loviisalle | Loviisoille | ||
essive | Loviisana | Loviisoina | ||
translative | Loviisaksi | Loviisoiksi | ||
abessive | Loviisatta | Loviisoitta | ||
instructive | — | Loviisoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
Statistics edit
- Loviisa is the 586th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 488 female individuals (and as a middle name to 2,660 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.