Maarian (“Maria's”) + hamina (“harbour”). Founded in 1861 when Finland was a grand duchy of Russia, and named after the then empress consort of Russia, Maria Alexandrovna.
Maarianhamina
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Maarianhamina" is Maarianhaminassa.
Inflection of Maarianhamina (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Maarianhamina | — | |
genitive | Maarianhaminan | — | |
partitive | Maarianhaminaa | — | |
illative | Maarianhaminaan | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Maarianhamina | — | |
accusative | nom. | Maarianhamina | — |
gen. | Maarianhaminan | ||
genitive | Maarianhaminan | — | |
partitive | Maarianhaminaa | — | |
inessive | Maarianhaminassa | — | |
elative | Maarianhaminasta | — | |
illative | Maarianhaminaan | — | |
adessive | Maarianhaminalla | — | |
ablative | Maarianhaminalta | — | |
allative | Maarianhaminalle | — | |
essive | Maarianhaminana | — | |
translative | Maarianhaminaksi | — | |
abessive | Maarianhaminatta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |