maanantai

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Swedish mānadagher, from Proto-West Germanic *mānini dag.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑːnɑntɑi̯/,
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːnɑntɑi
  • Hyphenation(key): maa‧nan‧tai

Noun

day of the week
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maanantai

  1. Monday (day of the week; the first day of the week in Finland and in the ISO 8601 standard)

Declension

Inflection of maanantai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominative maanantai maanantait
genitive maanantain maanantaiden
maanantaitten
partitive maanantaita maanantaita
illative maanantaihin maanantaihin
singular plural
nominative maanantai maanantait
accusative nom. maanantai maanantait
gen. maanantain
genitive maanantain maanantaiden
maanantaitten
partitive maanantaita maanantaita
inessive maanantaissa maanantaissa
elative maanantaista maanantaista
illative maanantaihin maanantaihin
adessive maanantailla maanantailla
ablative maanantailta maanantailta
allative maanantaille maanantaille
essive maanantaina maanantaina
translative maanantaiksi maanantaiksi
abessive maanantaitta maanantaitta
instructive maanantain
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of maanantai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)

Derived terms

compounds

Descendants

  • Ingrian: maantaki (from dialectal maantaki)

See also

Further reading