Pyhäjärvi

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Etymology

pyhä (sacred) +‎ järvi (lake)

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Pyhäjärvi

  1. A town in North Ostrobothnia, Finland.
    Synonyms: (historical) Pyhäjärvi Ol, (historical) Pyhäsalmi
  2. A former municipality of Uusimaa, merged with Karkkila in 1969.
    Synonym: (historical) Pyhäjärvi Ul
  3. A former Finnish municipality in the Karelian Isthmus, now the Russian municipality Отрадное (Otradnoje).
    Synonyms: (historical) Pyhäjärvi Vl, (historical) Pyhäjärvi Vpl
  4. Any of a number of lakes in Finland.
  5. a Finnish surname

Usage notes

  • (town, municipality): The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used when referring to a location; for example, "in Pyhäjärvi" is Pyhäjärvellä.
  • The town in Northern Ostrobothnia was called Pyhäjärvi Ol until 1962, Pyhäjärvi in 1963-92, Pyhäsalmi in 1993-95 and again Pyhäjärvi from 1996 onwards.

Declension

Inflection of Pyhäjärvi (Kotus type 7/ovi, no gradation)
nominative Pyhäjärvi Pyhäjärvet
genitive Pyhäjärven Pyhäjärvien
partitive Pyhäjärveä Pyhäjärviä
illative Pyhäjärveen Pyhäjärviin
singular plural
nominative Pyhäjärvi Pyhäjärvet
accusative nom. Pyhäjärvi Pyhäjärvet
gen. Pyhäjärven
genitive Pyhäjärven Pyhäjärvien
partitive Pyhäjärveä Pyhäjärviä
inessive Pyhäjärvessä Pyhäjärvissä
elative Pyhäjärvestä Pyhäjärvistä
illative Pyhäjärveen Pyhäjärviin
adessive Pyhäjärvellä Pyhäjärvillä
ablative Pyhäjärveltä Pyhäjärviltä
allative Pyhäjärvelle Pyhäjärville
essive Pyhäjärvenä Pyhäjärvinä
translative Pyhäjärveksi Pyhäjärviksi
abessive Pyhäjärvettä Pyhäjärvittä
instructive Pyhäjärvin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of Pyhäjärvi (Kotus type 7/ovi, no gradation)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: Pyhäjärvi
  • Swedish: Pyhäjärvi

Statistics

  • The surname Pyhäjärvi belongs to 249 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.