tuulenkala
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]tuulen (“of the wind”) + kala (“fish”); the fish is often caught as side catch of Baltic herring during and after heavy winds.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tuulenkala
- sand lance, sand eel (fish of the family Ammodytidae)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of tuulenkala (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | tuulenkala | tuulenkalat | ||
genitive | tuulenkalan | tuulenkalojen | ||
partitive | tuulenkalaa | tuulenkaloja | ||
illative | tuulenkalaan | tuulenkaloihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | tuulenkala | tuulenkalat | ||
accusative | nom. | tuulenkala | tuulenkalat | |
gen. | tuulenkalan | |||
genitive | tuulenkalan | tuulenkalojen tuulenkalain rare | ||
partitive | tuulenkalaa | tuulenkaloja | ||
inessive | tuulenkalassa | tuulenkaloissa | ||
elative | tuulenkalasta | tuulenkaloista | ||
illative | tuulenkalaan | tuulenkaloihin | ||
adessive | tuulenkalalla | tuulenkaloilla | ||
ablative | tuulenkalalta | tuulenkaloilta | ||
allative | tuulenkalalle | tuulenkaloille | ||
essive | tuulenkalana | tuulenkaloina | ||
translative | tuulenkalaksi | tuulenkaloiksi | ||
abessive | tuulenkalatta | tuulenkaloitta | ||
instructive | — | tuulenkaloin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “tuulenkala”, 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