Alajärvi
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English
Proper noun
Alajärvi
- A town and municipality of South Ostrobothnia, Finland
Translations
Finnish
Etymology
ala- (“lower”) + järvi (“lake”). The town is named such as it is lower, i.e. downstream of Lake Ähtäri, even if nowadays it is upstream of Lake Lappajärvi.[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Alajärvi
- Alajärvi (a town and municipality of Finland)
- a Finnish surname
Declension
The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Alajärvi" is Alajärvellä.
| Inflection of Alajärvi (Kotus type 7/ovi, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | Alajärvi | — | |
| genitive | Alajärven | — | |
| partitive | Alajärveä | — | |
| illative | Alajärveen | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Alajärvi | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Alajärvi | — |
| gen. | Alajärven | ||
| genitive | Alajärven | — | |
| partitive | Alajärveä | — | |
| inessive | Alajärvessä | — | |
| elative | Alajärvestä | — | |
| illative | Alajärveen | — | |
| adessive | Alajärvellä | — | |
| ablative | Alajärveltä | — | |
| allative | Alajärvelle | — | |
| essive | Alajärvenä | — | |
| translative | Alajärveksi | — | |
| abessive | Alajärvettä | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
Descendants
Statistics
- The surname Alajärvi belongs to 198 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
References
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN