Kajaani
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English
Proper noun
Kajaani
- A town and municipality of Kainuu, Finland
Synonyms
- Cajanaburg (historical)
Translations
town
Finnish
Etymology
From the initial part of Swedish Kajaneborg, which is of the same origin as in Swedish Kajanaland (“Kainuu”), probably from Russian каяний (kajanij), каянский (kajanskij) (compare Russian Каянская земля (Kajanskaja zemlja, “Kvenland?”)), which is in some way related to Kainuu and Old Norse kvenir.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kajaani
- Kajaani (a town and municipality of Finland)
- a Finnish surname
Declension
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Kajaani" is Kajaanissa.
| Inflection of Kajaani (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | Kajaani | — | |
| genitive | Kajaanin | — | |
| partitive | Kajaania | — | |
| illative | Kajaaniin | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Kajaani | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Kajaani | — |
| gen. | Kajaanin | ||
| genitive | Kajaanin | — | |
| partitive | Kajaania | — | |
| inessive | Kajaanissa | — | |
| elative | Kajaanista | — | |
| illative | Kajaaniin | — | |
| adessive | Kajaanilla | — | |
| ablative | Kajaanilta | — | |
| allative | Kajaanille | — | |
| essive | Kajaanina | — | |
| translative | Kajaaniksi | — | |
| abessive | Kajaanitta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
Statistics
- The surname Kajaani belongs to 22 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.