Varkaus
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English
Proper noun
Varkaus
- A town and municipality of Finland.
Translations
Finnish
Etymology
From varkaus (“theft”). There are multiple theories in how the place got this name, but the most likely one states that it referred to a type of isthmus that a boat could be dragged on to avoid a rapid section of a river. Thus, in effect, a hard part of the journey was "stolen" by skipping it.[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Varkaus
- Varkaus (a town and municipality of Finland)
Declension
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Varkaus" is Varkaudessa.
| Inflection of Varkaus (Kotus type 40*F/kalleus, t-d gradation) | |||
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| nominative | Varkaus | — | |
| genitive | Varkauden | — | |
| partitive | Varkautta | — | |
| illative | Varkauteen | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Varkaus | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Varkaus | — |
| gen. | Varkauden | ||
| genitive | Varkauden | — | |
| partitive | Varkautta | — | |
| inessive | Varkaudessa | — | |
| elative | Varkaudesta | — | |
| illative | Varkauteen | — | |
| adessive | Varkaudella | — | |
| ablative | Varkaudelta | — | |
| allative | Varkaudelle | — | |
| essive | Varkautena | — | |
| translative | Varkaudeksi | — | |
| abessive | Varkaudetta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
References
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN