Sonkajärvi
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Finnish
Etymology
sonka + järvi, possibly from Sami (either Inari Sami sogge (“far inside corner of a building”) or Northern Sami čoaggi (“lump”)), although this is not certain.[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Sonkajärvi
- A municipality of Northern Savonia, Finland.
- (rare) a Finnish surname
Declension
The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Sonkajärvi" is Sonkajärvellä.
| Inflection of Sonkajärvi (Kotus type 7/ovi, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Sonkajärvi | Sonkajärvet | |
| genitive | Sonkajärven | Sonkajärvien | |
| partitive | Sonkajärveä | Sonkajärviä | |
| illative | Sonkajärveen | Sonkajärviin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Sonkajärvi | Sonkajärvet | |
| accusative | nom. | Sonkajärvi | Sonkajärvet |
| gen. | Sonkajärven | ||
| genitive | Sonkajärven | Sonkajärvien | |
| partitive | Sonkajärveä | Sonkajärviä | |
| inessive | Sonkajärvessä | Sonkajärvissä | |
| elative | Sonkajärvestä | Sonkajärvistä | |
| illative | Sonkajärveen | Sonkajärviin | |
| adessive | Sonkajärvellä | Sonkajärvillä | |
| ablative | Sonkajärveltä | Sonkajärviltä | |
| allative | Sonkajärvelle | Sonkajärville | |
| essive | Sonkajärvenä | Sonkajärvinä | |
| translative | Sonkajärveksi | Sonkajärviksi | |
| abessive | Sonkajärvettä | Sonkajärvittä | |
| instructive | — | Sonkajärvin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
Descendants
- → English: Sonkajärvi
- → Swedish: Sonkajärvi
Statistics
- The surname Sonkajärvi belongs to 32 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
References
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN