hammasvalas
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Finnish
Etymology
hammas (“tooth”) + valas (“whale”)
Pronunciation
Noun
hammasvalas
- toothed whale, odontocete (any whale of the Odontoceti suborder of the cetaceans, including sperm whales, beaked whales, dolphins, and others)
- mesoplodont beaked whale (any whale of the genus Mesoplodon within Odontoceti)
- Sowerby's beaked whale, Mesoplodon bidens
Declension
| Inflection of hammasvalas (Kotus type 41/vieras, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | hammasvalas | hammasvalaat | |
| genitive | hammasvalaan | hammasvalaiden hammasvalaitten | |
| partitive | hammasvalasta | hammasvalaita | |
| illative | hammasvalaaseen | hammasvalaisiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | hammasvalas | hammasvalaat | |
| accusative | nom. | hammasvalas | hammasvalaat |
| gen. | hammasvalaan | ||
| genitive | hammasvalaan | hammasvalaiden hammasvalaitten hammasvalasten rare | |
| partitive | hammasvalasta | hammasvalaita | |
| inessive | hammasvalaassa | hammasvalaissa | |
| elative | hammasvalaasta | hammasvalaista | |
| illative | hammasvalaaseen | hammasvalaisiin hammasvalaihin rare | |
| adessive | hammasvalaalla | hammasvalailla | |
| ablative | hammasvalaalta | hammasvalailta | |
| allative | hammasvalaalle | hammasvalaille | |
| essive | hammasvalaana | hammasvalaina | |
| translative | hammasvalaaksi | hammasvalaiksi | |
| abessive | hammasvalaatta | hammasvalaitta | |
| instructive | — | hammasvalain | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
compounds
Further reading
- “hammasvalas”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02