Paavo
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Estonian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Paavo (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- a male given name, equivalent to English Paul
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
The traditional short form of biblical Paavali (“Paul”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Paavo
- a male given name
- 1870 Aleksis Kivi, Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers): Chapter 11 (Translation 1991 by Richard A. Impola):
- Peeveli! sanonpa kuin ennen Jaakkolan Paavo, se korea poika: »kävishän tämä elämä laatuun ilman yhtä päivää vuodessa, ilman tuota kirottua kinkeripäivää», sanoi hän.
- I'll quote that fine boy Paavo Jaakkola, who said: "Life would be all right with one less day in the year, that damned reading day".
- 1946, Anni Swan, Pauli on koditon, WSOY, published 1960, page 70:
- —Sanokaa Paavoksi. Paulihan se on nimeltään, mutta se on vain turhan herraskainen nimi.
—Mikäs, tuumi Kaapo, —nimihän se on Paavokin.- —Call me Paavo. He is actually named Pauli, but that just sounds too fanciful.
—Sure, Kaapo thought, —Paavo's a name too.
- —Call me Paavo. He is actually named Pauli, but that just sounds too fanciful.
- 1990, Riitta Vartti, Sun lapsuutes, Gummerus, →ISBN, page 512:
- Taito-eno ravisteli unia silmistään ja nousi kättelemään Paavoa. [ - - - ] —Jaa, ja se on nyt sitte se Paavo Särkkä. On oikei vanhanaikane miehen nimi nin kun Saarjärven Paavo ennen vanhaa.
- Uncle Taito tried to shake the dreams off his eyes and rose up to give Paavo a handshake. [ - - - ] —Well, so you're Paavo Särkkä. That's a true old-fashioned name like Paavo Sarrjärvi back in the day.
- 1870 Aleksis Kivi, Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers): Chapter 11 (Translation 1991 by Richard A. Impola):
- The letter P in the Finnish spelling alphabet.
Declension[edit]
Inflection of Paavo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Paavo | Paavot | ||
genitive | Paavon | Paavojen | ||
partitive | Paavoa | Paavoja | ||
illative | Paavoon | Paavoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Paavo | Paavot | ||
accusative | nom. | Paavo | Paavot | |
gen. | Paavon | |||
genitive | Paavon | Paavojen | ||
partitive | Paavoa | Paavoja | ||
inessive | Paavossa | Paavoissa | ||
elative | Paavosta | Paavoista | ||
illative | Paavoon | Paavoihin | ||
adessive | Paavolla | Paavoilla | ||
ablative | Paavolta | Paavoilta | ||
allative | Paavolle | Paavoille | ||
essive | Paavona | Paavoina | ||
translative | Paavoksi | Paavoiksi | ||
abessive | Paavotta | Paavoitta | ||
instructive | — | Paavoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
- (male names) Paavali, Pauli
- (female names) Paula, Pauliina
- (surnames) Paasonen, Paavilainen, Paavola, Pasanen
Statistics[edit]
- Paavo is the 71st most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 10,140 male individuals (and as a middle name to 6,269 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
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