Variant of Rayner, a patronymic surname from a medieval given name from Proto-Germanic *raginą (“counsel by the gods”) + *harjaz (“army”). Also borrowed from modern German.
Rainer
Rainer
Rainer
Common male name among the Romani in Finland.
Inflection of Rainer (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Rainer | Rainerit | ||
genitive | Rainerin | Rainerien Rainereiden Rainereitten | ||
partitive | Raineria | Rainereita Rainereja | ||
illative | Raineriin | Rainereihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Rainer | Rainerit | ||
accusative | nom. | Rainer | Rainerit | |
gen. | Rainerin | |||
genitive | Rainerin | Rainerien Rainereiden Rainereitten | ||
partitive | Raineria | Rainereita Rainereja | ||
inessive | Rainerissa | Rainereissa | ||
elative | Rainerista | Rainereista | ||
illative | Raineriin | Rainereihin | ||
adessive | Rainerilla | Rainereilla | ||
ablative | Rainerilta | Rainereilta | ||
allative | Rainerille | Rainereille | ||
essive | Rainerina | Rainereina | ||
translative | Raineriksi | Rainereiksi | ||
abessive | Raineritta | Rainereitta | ||
instructive | — | Rainerein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
From Proto-Germanic *raginą (“counsel by the gods”) + *harjaz (“army”). Cognate to Scandinavian Ragnar.
Rainer m (proper noun, strong, genitive Rainers, plural Rainer or Rainers)
Rainer m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Rainers or (with an article) Rainer, feminine genitive Rainer, plural Rainers or Rainer)
singular | plural | |||||||
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masculine | feminine | |||||||
indef. | def. | noun | indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | (ein) | (der) | Rainer | (eine) | (die) | Rainer | (die) | Rainers, Rainer |
genitive | (eines) | (des) | Rainers, Rainer1 | (einer) | (der) | Rainer | (der) | Rainers, Rainer |
dative | (einem) | (dem) | Rainer | (einer) | (der) | Rainer | (den) | Rainers, Rainer |
accusative | (einen) | (den) | Rainer | (eine) | (die) | Rainer | (die) | Rainers, Rainer |
1With an article.