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Cardinal: neljä Colloquial counting form: nee, nel Ordinal: neljäs Colloquial ordinal: nelkki (regional) Ordinal abbreviation: 4., 4:s Digit name: nelonen Adverbial: neljästi Multiplier: nelinkertainen Distributive: nelittäin Fractional: neljäsosa, neljännes | ||
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From Proto-Finnic *neljä, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *neljä. Cognates include Estonian neli, Northern Sami njeallje, Erzya ниле (ńiľe), Northern Mansi нила (nila) and Hungarian négy.
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Declension of neljä (type 10/koira)
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Declension goes according to type koira (number 10), except of the two forms, which drop the j for better pronunciation (*): first instructive plural form nelin (the koira-type second form is neljin, which is dated) and temporal distributive form nelisin (koira-type form would have been neljisin).
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Cardinal : neljä Ordinal : neljäs | ||
From Proto-Finnic *neljä, from Proto-Uralic *neljä. Cognates include Finnish neljä and Estonian neli.
neljä
Declension of neljä (type 3/koira, no gradation) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | neljä | neljät |
genitive | neljän | neljiin |
partitive | neljää | neljiä |
illative | neljää | neljii |
inessive | neljääs | neljiis |
elative | neljäst | neljist |
allative | neljälle | neljille |
adessive | neljääl | neljiil |
ablative | neljält | neljilt |
translative | neljäks | neljiks |
essive | neljännä, neljään | neljinnä, neljiin |
exessive1) | neljänt | neljint |
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive. |
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