mäkrä

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Karelian

Regional variants of mäkrä
North Karelian
(Viena) 		mäkrä
South Karelian
(Tver) 		mägrä

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mäkrä. Cognates include Finnish mäyrä and Estonian mäger.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmækræ/
  • Hyphenation: mäk‧rä

Noun

mäkrä (genitive mäkrän, partitive mäkryä)

  1. (North Karelian) badger

Declension

Viena Karelian declension of mäkrä (type 5/koira, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative mäkrä mäkrät
genitive mäkrän mäkrien
partitive mäkryä mäkrie
illative mäkräh mäkrih
inessive mäkräššä mäkrissä
elative mäkräštä mäkristä
adessive mäkrällä mäkrillä
ablative mäkrältä mäkriltä
translative mäkräkši mäkriksi
essive mäkränä mäkrinä
comitative — mäkrineh
abessive mäkrättä mäkrittä
Possessive forms of mäkrä
1st person mäkräni
2nd person mäkräš
3rd person mäkräh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

  • P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN
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