lauantai

Finnish

Etymology

From earlier *laugantaki (compare dialectal lauvantaki), borrowed from Old Norse laugardagr. Estonian laupäev, Votic laukopäive, Ingrian laukopäivä are from the same origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑu̯ɑntɑi̯/, [ˈlɑu̯ɑn̪t̪ɑi̯]

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• Rhymes: -ɑuɑntɑi
• Syllabification^(key): lau‧an‧tai

Noun

day of the week

la	Previous:	perjantai
	Next:	sunnuntai

lauantai

1. Saturday (day of the week; the sixth day of the week in Finland and in the ISO 8601 standard)

Declension

Inflection of lauantai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominative		lauantai	lauantait
genitive		lauantain	lauantaiden lauantaitten
partitive		lauantaita	lauantaita
illative		lauantaihin	lauantaihin
		singular	plural
nominative		lauantai	lauantait
accusative	nom.	lauantai	lauantait
	gen.	lauantain
genitive		lauantain	lauantaiden lauantaitten
partitive		lauantaita	lauantaita
inessive		lauantaissa	lauantaissa
elative		lauantaista	lauantaista
illative		lauantaihin	lauantaihin
adessive		lauantailla	lauantailla
ablative		lauantailta	lauantailta
allative		lauantaille	lauantaille
essive		lauantaina	lauantaina
translative		lauantaiksi	lauantaiksi
instructive		—	lauantain
abessive		lauantaitta	lauantaitta
comitative		—	lauantaineen

Possessive forms of lauantai (type maa)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	lauantaini	lauantaimme
2nd person	lauantaisi	lauantainne
3rd person	lauantainsa

Compounds

• lauantai-ilta
• lauantaiaamu
• lauantaimakkara
• lauantaipäivä
• lauantaisauna
• lauantaisiivous
• pääsiäislauantai

Descendants

• Kven: lauvantai
• → Ingrian: lauvvantaki

See also

• (abbreviation) la
• (days of the week) viikonpäivä; maanantai‎, tiistai‎, keskiviikko‎, torstai‎, perjantai‎, lauantai‎, sunnuntai‎ ^{(Category: fi:Days of the week)}