Lahti
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English
Etymology
Proper noun
Lahti (countable and uncountable, plural Lahtis)
- A city and municipality, the capital of Päijänne Tavastia, Finland.
- (countable) A surname from Finnish.
Translations
city of Finland
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Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
< lahti (“bay”)
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Lahti
- A placename:
- (uncountable) Lahti (a city and municipality, the capital of Päijänne Tavastia, Finland)
- Any of a number of small localities in Finland.
- a Finnish surname, Lahti, from landscape
Declension
- (city): The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used when referring to a location; for example, "in Lahti" is Lahdessa.
| Inflection of Lahti (Kotus type 7*F/ovi, t-d gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Lahti | Lahdet | |
| genitive | Lahden | Lahtien | |
| partitive | Lahtea | Lahtia | |
| illative | Lahteen | Lahtiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Lahti | Lahdet | |
| accusative | nom. | Lahti | Lahdet |
| gen. | Lahden | ||
| genitive | Lahden | Lahtien | |
| partitive | Lahtea | Lahtia | |
| inessive | Lahdessa | Lahdissa | |
| elative | Lahdesta | Lahdista | |
| illative | Lahteen | Lahtiin | |
| adessive | Lahdella | Lahdilla | |
| ablative | Lahdelta | Lahdilta | |
| allative | Lahdelle | Lahdille | |
| essive | Lahtena | Lahtina | |
| translative | Lahdeksi | Lahdiksi | |
| abessive | Lahdetta | Lahditta | |
| instructive | — | Lahdin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
Descendants
Statistics
- Lahti is the 70th most common surname in Finland, belonging to 7,403 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.