Pinja
See also: pinja
Finnish
editEtymology
editA 1960s invention from pinja (“stone pine”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editPinja
- a female given name
- 2012, Venla Hiidensalo, Mediahuora, Otava, →ISBN, page 37:
- Kolehmainen tiesi, että myyjättären nimi esimerkiksi oli Pinja. Pinja oli syntynyt Pinjaksi, kasvanut itsekseen vähitellen ja ennakoivasti niin kuin kukka mukulasta. Pinja saattaisi taipua ja vähän nahistua ympäristövaikutusten takia, mutta pinjuuden ydin pysyisi samana.
- Kolehmainen knew for example that the saleswoman was named Pinja. Pinja was born a Pinja, slowly and proactively grown up by herself like a flower from a bud. Pinja could bend and even get a bit leathery due to environmental factors, but still stay a Pinja to the core.
Usage notes
edit- Popular in the 1990s and the 2000s.
Declension
editInflection of Pinja (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Pinja | Pinjat | |
genitive | Pinjan | Pinjojen | |
partitive | Pinjaa | Pinjoja | |
illative | Pinjaan | Pinjoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Pinja | Pinjat | |
accusative | nom. | Pinja | Pinjat |
gen. | Pinjan | ||
genitive | Pinjan | Pinjojen Pinjain rare | |
partitive | Pinjaa | Pinjoja | |
inessive | Pinjassa | Pinjoissa | |
elative | Pinjasta | Pinjoista | |
illative | Pinjaan | Pinjoihin | |
adessive | Pinjalla | Pinjoilla | |
ablative | Pinjalta | Pinjoilta | |
allative | Pinjalle | Pinjoille | |
essive | Pinjana | Pinjoina | |
translative | Pinjaksi | Pinjoiksi | |
abessive | Pinjatta | Pinjoitta | |
instructive | — | Pinjoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
edit- Pinja is the 134th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 5,417 female individuals (and as a middle name to 446 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.