-nainen
Finnish
Suffix
-nainen (front vowel harmony variant -näinen)
- forms adjectives, mostly describing a quality of the structure of something
- koko (“whole”) + -nainen → kokonainen (“whole, entire, complete”)
- irto- (“loose, separate”, prefix) + -nainen → irtonainen (“loose, separate”)
- yksi (“one”) + -nainen → yhtenäinen (“uniform”)
Declension
| Inflection of -nainen (Kotus type 38/nainen, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | -nainen | -naiset | |
| genitive | -naisen | -naisten -naisien | |
| partitive | -naista | -naisia | |
| illative | -naiseen | -naisiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | -nainen | -naiset | |
| accusative | nom. | -nainen | -naiset |
| gen. | -naisen | ||
| genitive | -naisen | -naisten -naisien | |
| partitive | -naista | -naisia | |
| inessive | -naisessa | -naisissa | |
| elative | -naisesta | -naisista | |
| illative | -naiseen | -naisiin | |
| adessive | -naisella | -naisilla | |
| ablative | -naiselta | -naisilta | |
| allative | -naiselle | -naisille | |
| essive | -naisena | -naisina | |
| translative | -naiseksi | -naisiksi | |
| instructive | — | -naisin | |
| abessive | -naisetta | -naisitta | |
| comitative | — | -naisine | |
Derived terms
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