karja

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Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Proto-Finnic *karja, suspected to be a loan from Proto-Germanic *harjaz. Cognate to Estonian kari, Livonian kōra, and possibly Swedish här.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Hyphenation: kar‧ja
  • Rhymes: -ɑrjɑ
  • IPA: [ˈkɑrjɑ]

Noun[edit]

karja

  1. cattle (domesticated bovine animals); sometimes with a specifier: nautakarja, lehmikarja
  2. other domesticated animals kept for food; in this sense usually with a specifier: siipikarja, porokarja etc.
  3. stock, livestock (farm animals; animals domesticated for cultivation collectively)
  4. (rare) herd, flock
    Sata teertä yhdessä karjassa.
    One hundred grouses in one flock.
  5. (figuratively) wild animals used for food
    veden karja = the fish
    metsän karja, Tapion karja = the game

Declension[edit]

Declension of karja (type kala)
singular plural
nominative karja karjat
genitive karjan karjojen
karjain1
partitive karjaa karjoja
accusative karja
karjan		 karjat
inessive karjassa karjoissa
elative karjasta karjoista
illative karjaan karjoihin
adessive karjalla karjoilla
ablative karjalta karjoilta
allative karjalle karjoille
essive karjana karjoina
translative karjaksi karjoiksi
instructive – karjoin
abessive karjatta karjoitta
comitative – karjoineen
1) Rare.   

Derived terms[edit]

compounds

Hungarian[edit]

Noun[edit]

karja

  1. possessive third-person singular, singular possession of kar

Votic[edit]

Noun[edit]

karja

  1. pasture
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