hapanhai
Finnish
editEtymology
edithapan (“sour”) + hai (“shark”)
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithapanhai
- A foul-smelling Icelandic food made of Greenland shark or basking shark by fermenting and drying. As it is barely known outside Nordic countries, most languages do not have a word for it. In English, it might be called fermented shark, or by the Icelandic term kæstur hákarl (“fermented shark”) or just hákarl (“shark, Greenland shark”).
Declension
editInflection of hapanhai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | hapanhai | hapanhait | |
genitive | hapanhain | hapanhaiden hapanhaitten | |
partitive | hapanhaita | hapanhaita | |
illative | hapanhaihin | hapanhaihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | hapanhai | hapanhait | |
accusative | nom. | hapanhai | hapanhait |
gen. | hapanhain | ||
genitive | hapanhain | hapanhaiden hapanhaitten | |
partitive | hapanhaita | hapanhaita | |
inessive | hapanhaissa | hapanhaissa | |
elative | hapanhaista | hapanhaista | |
illative | hapanhaihin | hapanhaihin | |
adessive | hapanhailla | hapanhailla | |
ablative | hapanhailta | hapanhailta | |
allative | hapanhaille | hapanhaille | |
essive | hapanhaina | hapanhaina | |
translative | hapanhaiksi | hapanhaiksi | |
abessive | hapanhaitta | hapanhaitta | |
instructive | — | hapanhain | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |