neljä

Finnish

(index ne)

Finnish cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : neljä
    Ordinal : neljäs
    Adverbial : neljästi
    Multiplier : nelinkertainen
    Colloquial counting form : nee
    Colloquial ordinal : nelkki
Finnish Wikipedia article on neljä

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *neljä, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *neljä. Cognates include Estonian neli, Northern Sami njeallje, Mansi нила (ńila) and Hungarian négy.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈneljæ/, [ˈne̞ljæ]
  • Hyphenation: nel‧jä

Numeral

neljä

  1. four

Usage notes

  • See Appendix:Finnish numbers.
  • The instructive plural nelin is almost always used instead of neljin and it is used e.g. in the phrase nelin kontin, "on all fours" and in the structure nelin verroin + comparative of an adjective, e.g. nelin verroin parempi, "four times as good".

Declension

Declension goes according to type koira (number 10), except of the two forms, which drop the j for better pronunciation (*): first instructive plural form nelin (the koira-type second form is neljin, which is lesser used) and temporal distributive form nelisin (koira-type form would have been neljisin).

Derived terms

See also


Ingrian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish neljä.

Numeral

neljä

  1. four
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