vesiraja
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
vesi (“water”) + raja (“border”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
vesiraja
- waterfront (the line that separates a body of water from the dry land, or the land in the immediate vicinity of it)
- (nautical) waterline (line formed by the surface of the water on the hull of a ship when she is afloat)
- waterline (line showing where the water has been)
- (colloquial) The imaginary line at the waist, below which the pubic hair grows.
Declension[edit]
Inflection of vesiraja (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | vesiraja | vesirajat | ||
genitive | vesirajan | vesirajojen | ||
partitive | vesirajaa | vesirajoja | ||
illative | vesirajaan | vesirajoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | vesiraja | vesirajat | ||
accusative | nom. | vesiraja | vesirajat | |
gen. | vesirajan | |||
genitive | vesirajan | vesirajojen vesirajainrare | ||
partitive | vesirajaa | vesirajoja | ||
inessive | vesirajassa | vesirajoissa | ||
elative | vesirajasta | vesirajoista | ||
illative | vesirajaan | vesirajoihin | ||
adessive | vesirajalla | vesirajoilla | ||
ablative | vesirajalta | vesirajoilta | ||
allative | vesirajalle | vesirajoille | ||
essive | vesirajana | vesirajoina | ||
translative | vesirajaksi | vesirajoiksi | ||
abessive | vesirajatta | vesirajoitta | ||
instructive | — | vesirajoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading[edit]
- “vesiraja”, 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 2023-07-04