Ranua
Originally a farm name (whence the name of the town and the surname). Possibly from dialectal Tavastian ranu, kranu (“bad, stunted, runty, weak”), perhaps through the name for a poor field or bog,[1] of unknown further origin.
Ranua
The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Ranua" is Ranualla.
Inflection of Ranua (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Ranua | Ranuat | |
genitive | Ranuan | Ranuoiden Ranuoitten | |
partitive | Ranuaa | Ranuoita | |
illative | Ranuaan | Ranuoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Ranua | Ranuat | |
accusative | nom. | Ranua | Ranuat |
gen. | Ranuan | ||
genitive | Ranuan | Ranuoiden Ranuoitten Ranuain rare | |
partitive | Ranuaa | Ranuoita | |
inessive | Ranuassa | Ranuoissa | |
elative | Ranuasta | Ranuoista | |
illative | Ranuaan | Ranuoihin | |
adessive | Ranualla | Ranuoilla | |
ablative | Ranualta | Ranuoilta | |
allative | Ranualle | Ranuoille | |
essive | Ranuana | Ranuoina | |
translative | Ranuaksi | Ranuoiksi | |
abessive | Ranuatta | Ranuoitta | |
instructive | — | Ranuoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |