sattuma
Finnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editsattuma
- chance, coincidence, happenstance (random occurrence)
- jättää sattuman varaan ― to leave to chance
- coincidence (event that appears to be connected when it is not)
- (informal) floaty (particle of food, etc., found floating in liquid)
Declension
editInflection of sattuma (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | sattuma | sattumat | ||
genitive | sattuman | sattumien | ||
partitive | sattumaa | sattumia | ||
illative | sattumaan | sattumiin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | sattuma | sattumat | ||
accusative | nom. | sattuma | sattumat | |
gen. | sattuman | |||
genitive | sattuman | sattumien sattumain rare | ||
partitive | sattumaa | sattumia | ||
inessive | sattumassa | sattumissa | ||
elative | sattumasta | sattumista | ||
illative | sattumaan | sattumiin | ||
adessive | sattumalla | sattumilla | ||
ablative | sattumalta | sattumilta | ||
allative | sattumalle | sattumille | ||
essive | sattumana | sattumina | ||
translative | sattumaksi | sattumiksi | ||
abessive | sattumatta | sattumitta | ||
instructive | — | sattumin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “sattuma”, 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