Rainer
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See also: rainer
English
Etymology
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.
Proper noun
Rainer
Estonian
Proper noun
Rainer
- a male given name, equivalent to German Rainer
Related terms
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Rainer
- a male given name
Usage notes
Common male name among the Romani in Finland.
Declension
| Inflection of Rainer (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | ||
Derived terms
Statistics
- Rainer is the 251st most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 1,883 male individuals (and as a middle name to 4,479 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *raginą (“counsel by the gods”) + *harjaz (“army”). Cognate to Scandinavian Ragnar.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Rainer m (proper noun, strong, genitive Rainers, plural Rainer or Rainers)
- a male given name
Declension
Declension of Rainer
Proper noun
Rainer m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Rainers or (with an article) Rainer, feminine genitive Rainer, plural Rainers or Rainer)
- a surname originating as a patronymic
Declension
Declension of Rainer
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.