yöperhonen
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]yö (“night”) + perhonen (“butterfly”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈyø̯ˌperhonen/, [ˈyø̞̯ˌpe̞rho̞ne̞n]
- Rhymes: -erhonen
- Syllabification(key): yö‧per‧ho‧nen
- Hyphenation(key): yö‧perho‧nen
Noun
[edit]yöperhonen
- (insects) moth
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of yöperhonen (Kotus type 38/nainen, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | yöperhonen | yöperhoset | |
| genitive | yöperhosen | yöperhosten yöperhosien | |
| partitive | yöperhosta | yöperhosia | |
| illative | yöperhoseen | yöperhosiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | yöperhonen | yöperhoset | |
| accusative | nom. | yöperhonen | yöperhoset |
| gen. | yöperhosen | ||
| genitive | yöperhosen | yöperhosten yöperhosien | |
| partitive | yöperhosta | yöperhosia | |
| inessive | yöperhosessa | yöperhosissa | |
| elative | yöperhosesta | yöperhosista | |
| illative | yöperhoseen | yöperhosiin | |
| adessive | yöperhosella | yöperhosilla | |
| ablative | yöperhoselta | yöperhosilta | |
| allative | yöperhoselle | yöperhosille | |
| essive | yöperhosena | yöperhosina | |
| translative | yöperhoseksi | yöperhosiksi | |
| abessive | yöperhosetta | yöperhositta | |
| instructive | — | yöperhosin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- “yöperhonen”, 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 4 July 2023