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sunnuntai

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Finnish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from North Germanic (compare Old Norse sunnudagr, sunundægi, Swedish söndag),[1] or directly from Old Saxon sunnundag;[2][3] ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *sunnōn dag.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsunːuntɑi̯/, [ˈs̠unːun̪t̪ɑ̝i̯]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -unːuntɑi
  • Syllabification(key): sun‧nun‧tai
  • Hyphenation(key): sun‧nun‧tai

Noun

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day of the week
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sunnuntai

  1. Sunday (day of the week; the seventh and last day of the week in Finland and in the ISO 8601 standard)

Usage notes

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As with all days of the week in Finnish, the essive case (sunnuntaina) is usually used when talking about what will happen or happened on a Sunday.

Declension

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Inflection of sunnuntai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominative sunnuntai sunnuntait
genitive sunnuntain sunnuntaiden
sunnuntaitten
partitive sunnuntaita sunnuntaita
illative sunnuntaihin sunnuntaihin
singular plural
nominative sunnuntai sunnuntait
accusative nom. sunnuntai sunnuntait
gen. sunnuntain
genitive sunnuntain sunnuntaiden
sunnuntaitten
partitive sunnuntaita sunnuntaita
inessive sunnuntaissa sunnuntaissa
elative sunnuntaista sunnuntaista
illative sunnuntaihin sunnuntaihin
adessive sunnuntailla sunnuntailla
ablative sunnuntailta sunnuntailta
allative sunnuntaille sunnuntaille
essive sunnuntaina sunnuntaina
translative sunnuntaiksi sunnuntaiksi
abessive sunnuntaitta sunnuntaitta
instructive sunnuntain
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of sunnuntai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)

Derived terms

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See also

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  • (abbreviation) su

References

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  1. ^ Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The Origin of Finnish Words]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
  2. ^ Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
  3. ^ Ruppel, Klaas, editor (2021–2023), Suomen etymologinen sanakirja [Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 72)‎[2] (in Finnish), Kotimaisten kielten keskus, →ISSN

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