hatara
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unknown. Cognate with Karelian hatara. Probably related to dialectal hatea and possibly in some way also to hutera. SSA tentatively connects hatara with scarcely attested hata (“sprout; a plant resembling horsetail”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
hatara (comparative hatarampi, superlative hatarin)
- shaky, flimsy
- Hökkeli vaikuttaa kovin hataralta.
- The shack looks terribly shaky.
- feeble
- Hänellä oli pelkkä hatara käsitys asiasta.
- He had only a feeble grasp of the subject.
Declension[edit]
Inflection of hatara (Kotus type 11/omena, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | hatara | hatarat | |
genitive | hataran | hatarien hataroiden hataroitten | |
partitive | hataraa | hataria hataroita | |
illative | hataraan | hatariin hataroihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | hatara | hatarat | |
accusative | nom. | hatara | hatarat |
gen. | hataran | ||
genitive | hataran | hatarien hataroiden hataroitten hatarojenrare hatarainrare | |
partitive | hataraa | hataria hataroita hatarojarare | |
inessive | hatarassa | hataroissa hatarissa | |
elative | hatarasta | hataroista hatarista | |
illative | hataraan | hatariin hataroihin | |
adessive | hataralla | hataroilla hatarilla | |
ablative | hataralta | hataroilta hatarilta | |
allative | hataralle | hataroille hatarille | |
essive | hatarana | hataroina hatarina | |
translative | hataraksi | hataroiksi hatariksi | |
abessive | hataratta | hataroitta hataritta | |
instructive | — | hataroin hatarin | |
comitative | — | hataroine hatarine |
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “hatara”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02