kertoja
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈkertojɑ/, [ˈk̟e̞rt̪o̞jɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -ertojɑ
- Syllabification(key): ker‧to‧ja
- Hyphenation(key): ker‧to‧ja
Etymology 1
[edit]kertoa (“to tell, to multiply”) + -ja. In the arithmetic sense "multiplier", coined by Finnish pastor, teacher and author Johan Fredrik Wallin for Luvunlasku- eli räkninki-kirja (1835).
Noun
[edit]kertoja
- narrator
- storyteller
- (arithmetic) multiplier (a number by which the multiplicand is to be multiplied)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of kertoja (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | kertoja | kertojat | |
| genitive | kertojan | kertojien | |
| partitive | kertojaa | kertojia | |
| illative | kertojaan | kertojiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | kertoja | kertojat | |
| accusative | nom. | kertoja | kertojat |
| gen. | kertojan | ||
| genitive | kertojan | kertojien kertojain rare | |
| partitive | kertojaa | kertojia | |
| inessive | kertojassa | kertojissa | |
| elative | kertojasta | kertojista | |
| illative | kertojaan | kertojiin | |
| adessive | kertojalla | kertojilla | |
| ablative | kertojalta | kertojilta | |
| allative | kertojalle | kertojille | |
| essive | kertojana | kertojina | |
| translative | kertojaksi | kertojiksi | |
| abessive | kertojatta | kertojitta | |
| instructive | — | kertojin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “kertoja”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]kertoja
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ertojɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/ertojɑ/3 syllables
- Finnish terms suffixed with -ja
- Finnish terms coined by Johan Fredrik Wallin
- Finnish coinages
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- fi:Arithmetic
- Finnish koira-type nominals
- Finnish non-lemma forms
- Finnish noun forms