Jooseppi
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Vernacular form of biblical Joosef (“Joseph”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Jooseppi
- (now rare as a first name) a male given name
- 1870 Aleksis Kivi, Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers): Chapter 14 (Translation 1991 by Richard A. Impola):
- Tuli viimein pieni poikanen, pieni piimäparta Jooseppi, avasi oven, ja sisään astui Timo taakkoinensa, äänetönnä, katsoen oikeasti, rävähtämättä eteensä.
- Finally a boy, little milk-mustached Jooseppi, came and opened the door, and in stepped Timo with his load, not saying a word and staring unblinkingly straight ahead.
- 1870 Aleksis Kivi, Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers): Chapter 14 (Translation 1991 by Richard A. Impola):
Declension[edit]
Inflection of Jooseppi (Kotus type 5*B/risti, pp-p gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Jooseppi | Joosepit | ||
genitive | Joosepin | Jooseppien | ||
partitive | Jooseppia | Jooseppeja | ||
illative | Jooseppiin | Jooseppeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Jooseppi | Joosepit | ||
accusative | nom. | Jooseppi | Joosepit | |
gen. | Joosepin | |||
genitive | Joosepin | Jooseppien | ||
partitive | Jooseppia | Jooseppeja | ||
inessive | Joosepissa | Joosepeissa | ||
elative | Joosepista | Joosepeista | ||
illative | Jooseppiin | Jooseppeihin | ||
adessive | Joosepilla | Joosepeilla | ||
ablative | Joosepilta | Joosepeilta | ||
allative | Joosepille | Joosepeille | ||
essive | Jooseppina | Jooseppeina | ||
translative | Joosepiksi | Joosepeiksi | ||
abessive | Joosepitta | Joosepeitta | ||
instructive | — | Joosepein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Related terms[edit]
Statistics[edit]
- The given name Jooseppi belongs to 57 male individuals (and as a middle name to 826 more, making it overwhelmingly more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.