Pietar- + saari, a folk-etymological form influenced by Swedish Pedersöre, itself folk-etymologically associated with the name Peder, but more likely from an original Finnish name *Petra-saari and thus equivalent to peura + saari.[1]
Pietarsaari
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Pietarsaari" is Pietarsaaressa.
| Inflection of Pietarsaari (Kotus type 26/pieni, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Pietarsaari | Pietarsaaret | |
| genitive | Pietarsaaren | Pietarsaarten Pietarsaarien | |
| partitive | Pietarsaarta | Pietarsaaria | |
| illative | Pietarsaareen | Pietarsaariin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Pietarsaari | Pietarsaaret | |
| accusative | nom. | Pietarsaari | Pietarsaaret |
| gen. | Pietarsaaren | ||
| genitive | Pietarsaaren | Pietarsaarten Pietarsaarien | |
| partitive | Pietarsaarta | Pietarsaaria | |
| inessive | Pietarsaaressa | Pietarsaarissa | |
| elative | Pietarsaaresta | Pietarsaarista | |
| illative | Pietarsaareen | Pietarsaariin | |
| adessive | Pietarsaarella | Pietarsaarilla | |
| ablative | Pietarsaarelta | Pietarsaarilta | |
| allative | Pietarsaarelle | Pietarsaarille | |
| essive | Pietarsaarena | Pietarsaarina | |
| translative | Pietarsaareksi | Pietarsaariksi | |
| abessive | Pietarsaaretta | Pietarsaaritta | |
| instructive | — | Pietarsaarin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||