Rainer
See also: rainer
English edit
Etymology edit
Variant of Rayner, a patronymic surname from a medieval given name from Proto-Germanic *raginą (“counsel by the gods”) + *harjaz (“army”). Also borrowed from modern German.
Proper noun edit
Rainer
Estonian edit
Proper noun edit
Rainer
- a male given name, equivalent to German Rainer
Related terms edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Rainer
- a male given name
Usage notes edit
Common male name among the Romani in Finland.
Declension edit
Inflection of Rainer (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
nominative | Rainer | Rainerit | ||
genitive | Rainerin | Rainerien Rainereiden Rainereitten | ||
partitive | Raineria | Rainereita Rainereja | ||
illative | Raineriin | Rainereihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Rainer | Rainerit | ||
accusative | nom. | Rainer | Rainerit | |
gen. | Rainerin | |||
genitive | Rainerin | Rainerien Rainereiden Rainereitten | ||
partitive | Raineria | Rainereita Rainereja | ||
inessive | Rainerissa | Rainereissa | ||
elative | Rainerista | Rainereista | ||
illative | Raineriin | Rainereihin | ||
adessive | Rainerilla | Rainereilla | ||
ablative | Rainerilta | Rainereilta | ||
allative | Rainerille | Rainereille | ||
essive | Rainerina | Rainereina | ||
translative | Raineriksi | Rainereiksi | ||
abessive | Raineritta | Rainereitta | ||
instructive | — | Rainerein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
Statistics edit
- Rainer is the 251st most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 1,883 male individuals (and as a middle name to 4,479 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
German edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *raginą (“counsel by the gods”) + *harjaz (“army”). Cognate to Scandinavian Ragnar.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Rainer m (proper noun, strong, genitive Rainers, plural Rainer or Rainers)
- a male given name
Declension edit
Declension of Rainer [masculine, strong]
Proper noun edit
Rainer m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Rainers or (with an article) Rainer, feminine genitive Rainer, plural Rainers or Rainer)
- a surname originating as a patronymic
Declension edit
Declension of Rainer [masculine // feminine, surname]
singular | plural | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | |||||||
indef. | def. | noun | indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | (ein) | (der) | Rainer | (eine) | (die) | Rainer | (die) | Rainers, Rainer |
genitive | (eines) | (des) | Rainers, Rainer1 | (einer) | (der) | Rainer | (der) | Rainers, Rainer |
dative | (einem) | (dem) | Rainer | (einer) | (der) | Rainer | (den) | Rainers, Rainer |
accusative | (einen) | (den) | Rainer | (eine) | (die) | Rainer | (die) | Rainers, Rainer |
1With an article.