kertoja
Finnish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
kertoa (“to tell, to multiply”) + -ja. In the arithmetic sense "multiplier", coined by Finnish pastor, teacher and author Johan Fredrik Wallin for Luvunlasku- eli räkninki-kirja (1835).
Noun edit
kertoja
- narrator
- storyteller
- (arithmetic) multiplier (a number by which the multiplicand is to be multiplied)
Declension edit
Inflection of kertoja (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | kertoja | kertojat | ||
genitive | kertojan | kertojien | ||
partitive | kertojaa | kertojia | ||
illative | kertojaan | kertojiin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | kertoja | kertojat | ||
accusative | nom. | kertoja | kertojat | |
gen. | kertojan | |||
genitive | kertojan | kertojien kertojainrare | ||
partitive | kertojaa | kertojia | ||
inessive | kertojassa | kertojissa | ||
elative | kertojasta | kertojista | ||
illative | kertojaan | kertojiin | ||
adessive | kertojalla | kertojilla | ||
ablative | kertojalta | kertojilta | ||
allative | kertojalle | kertojille | ||
essive | kertojana | kertojina | ||
translative | kertojaksi | kertojiksi | ||
abessive | kertojatta | kertojitta | ||
instructive | — | kertojin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Compounds edit
Further reading edit
- “kertoja”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
kertoja