hatara
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Unknown. Cognate with Karelian hatara. Probably related to dialectal hatea and possibly in some way also to hutera. SSA tentatively connects hatara with scarcely attested hata (“sprout; a plant resembling horsetail”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
hatara (comparative hatarampi, superlative hatarin)
- shaky, flimsy
- Hökkeli vaikuttaa kovin hataralta.
- The shack looks terribly shaky.
- feeble
- Hänellä oli pelkkä hatara käsitys asiasta.
- He had only a feeble grasp of the subject.
Declension edit
Inflection of hatara (Kotus type 11/omena, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | hatara | hatarat | |
genitive | hataran | hatarien hataroiden hataroitten | |
partitive | hataraa | hataria hataroita | |
illative | hataraan | hatariin hataroihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | hatara | hatarat | |
accusative | nom. | hatara | hatarat |
gen. | hataran | ||
genitive | hataran | hatarien hataroiden hataroitten hatarojenrare hatarainrare | |
partitive | hataraa | hataria hataroita hatarojarare | |
inessive | hatarassa | hataroissa hatarissa | |
elative | hatarasta | hataroista hatarista | |
illative | hataraan | hatariin hataroihin | |
adessive | hataralla | hataroilla hatarilla | |
ablative | hataralta | hataroilta hatarilta | |
allative | hataralle | hataroille hatarille | |
essive | hatarana | hataroina hatarina | |
translative | hataraksi | hataroiksi hatariksi | |
abessive | hataratta | hataroitta hataritta | |
instructive | — | hataroin hatarin | |
comitative | — | hataroine hatarine |
Derived terms edit
References edit
Further reading edit
- “hatara”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02