Pertti
Appearance
See also: pertti
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Short form of Swedish names ending in -bert, mainly Albert, but also Robert, Herbert, Hubert and Engelbert. Roughly equivalent to English Bert or Swedish Bertil.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Pertti
- a male given name from the Germanic languages
- 2020, Saara Cantell, Kesken jääneet hetket, Tammi, →ISBN, page 22:
- "Ei kenenkään komean nimi voi olla Pertti!"
[…] "Pertin, kyllä, sehän se sua siinä ensimmäiseksi kiinnostikin, että miten voi niin Ethan Hawken näköinen jätkä olla nimeltään Pertti. No, Pertti, tai Pertsa, kuten sä pian sitä hellästi kutsut―" uusi voihkaisu ja naurunpyrskähdys Katilta […]- "No handsome man can be called Pertti!"
[…] "Pertti's, yes, you were first fascinated by how a guy that looks so much like Ethan Hawke could be called Pertti. Well, Pertti, or Pertsa, as you're soon gonna call him―" Kati groaned and burst into laughter again […]
- "No handsome man can be called Pertti!"
Usage notes
[edit]- Popular in the 1940s and the 1950s.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Pertti (Kotus type 5*C/risti, tt-t gradation) | |||
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nominative | Pertti | Pertit | |
genitive | Pertin | Perttien | |
partitive | Perttiä | Perttejä | |
illative | Perttiin | Pertteihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Pertti | Pertit | |
accusative | nom. | Pertti | Pertit |
gen. | Pertin | ||
genitive | Pertin | Perttien | |
partitive | Perttiä | Perttejä | |
inessive | Pertissä | Perteissä | |
elative | Pertistä | Perteistä | |
illative | Perttiin | Pertteihin | |
adessive | Pertillä | Perteillä | |
ablative | Pertiltä | Perteiltä | |
allative | Pertille | Perteille | |
essive | Perttinä | Pertteinä | |
translative | Pertiksi | Perteiksi | |
abessive | Pertittä | Perteittä | |
instructive | — | Pertein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- Pertti is the 45th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 15,214 male individuals (and as a middle name to 3,096 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Categories:
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ertːi
- Rhymes:Finnish/ertːi/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish male given names
- Finnish male given names from Germanic languages
- Finnish terms with quotations
- Finnish risti-type nominals