Perttu
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Medieval vernacular form of Middle High German [Term?] (compare German Berthold) and Old Swedish Bertil.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈpertːu/, [ˈpe̞rt̪ːu]
- Rhymes: -ertːu
- Syllabification(key): Pert‧tu
- Hyphenation(key): Pert‧tu
Proper noun
[edit]Perttu
- a male given name
- a Finnish surname transferred from the given name
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of Perttu (Kotus type 1*C/valo, tt-t gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Perttu | Pertut | |
| genitive | Pertun | Perttujen | |
| partitive | Perttua | Perttuja | |
| illative | Perttuun | Perttuihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Perttu | Pertut | |
| accusative | nom. | Perttu | Pertut |
| gen. | Pertun | ||
| genitive | Pertun | Perttujen | |
| partitive | Perttua | Perttuja | |
| inessive | Pertussa | Pertuissa | |
| elative | Pertusta | Pertuista | |
| illative | Perttuun | Perttuihin | |
| adessive | Pertulla | Pertuilla | |
| ablative | Pertulta | Pertuilta | |
| allative | Pertulle | Pertuille | |
| essive | Perttuna | Perttuina | |
| translative | Pertuksi | Pertuiksi | |
| abessive | Pertutta | Pertuitta | |
| instructive | — | Pertuin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Statistics
[edit]- Perttu is the 231st most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 2,349 male individuals (and as a middle name to 559 more), according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
- Perttu is the 2432nd (tied with 3 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 329 individuals, according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Categories:
- Finnish terms derived from Middle High German
- Finnish terms derived from German
- Finnish terms derived from Old Swedish
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ertːu
- Rhymes:Finnish/ertːu/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish male given names
- Finnish surnames
- Finnish surnames from given names
- Finnish valo-type nominals