malluainen
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unknown + -uainen. Dialectal variants include mallinkainen, mallonkainen, mallunkainen, all mainly found in southwestern Finland, although malluainen also sporadically elsewhere.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
malluainen
- backswimmer, an insect of the family Notonectidae
Declension[edit]
Inflection 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