malluainen
Finnish
editEtymology
editUnknown + -uainen. Dialectal variants include mallinkainen, mallonkainen, mallunkainen, all mainly found in southwestern Finland, although malluainen also sporadically elsewhere.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmalluainen
- backswimmer, an insect of the family Notonectidae
Declension
editInflection of malluainen (Kotus type 38/nainen, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | malluainen | malluaiset | |
genitive | malluaisen | malluaisten malluaisien | |
partitive | malluaista | malluaisia | |
illative | malluaiseen | malluaisiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | malluainen | malluaiset | |
accusative | nom. | malluainen | malluaiset |
gen. | malluaisen | ||
genitive | malluaisen | malluaisten malluaisien | |
partitive | malluaista | malluaisia | |
inessive | malluaisessa | malluaisissa | |
elative | malluaisesta | malluaisista | |
illative | malluaiseen | malluaisiin | |
adessive | malluaisella | malluaisilla | |
ablative | malluaiselta | malluaisilta | |
allative | malluaiselle | malluaisille | |
essive | malluaisena | malluaisina | |
translative | malluaiseksi | malluaisiksi | |
abessive | malluaisetta | malluaisitta | |
instructive | — | malluaisin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
edit- “malluainen”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03