rautarouva
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]rauta (“iron”) + rouva (“lady”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rautarouva
- A strong and powerful (in terms of influence) female; especially the former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, known as the Iron Lady in English.
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of rautarouva (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | rautarouva | rautarouvat | |
| genitive | rautarouvan | rautarouvien | |
| partitive | rautarouvaa | rautarouvia | |
| illative | rautarouvaan | rautarouviin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | rautarouva | rautarouvat | |
| accusative | nom. | rautarouva | rautarouvat |
| gen. | rautarouvan | ||
| genitive | rautarouvan | rautarouvien rautarouvain rare | |
| partitive | rautarouvaa | rautarouvia | |
| inessive | rautarouvassa | rautarouvissa | |
| elative | rautarouvasta | rautarouvista | |
| illative | rautarouvaan | rautarouviin | |
| adessive | rautarouvalla | rautarouvilla | |
| ablative | rautarouvalta | rautarouvilta | |
| allative | rautarouvalle | rautarouville | |
| essive | rautarouvana | rautarouvina | |
| translative | rautarouvaksi | rautarouviksi | |
| abessive | rautarouvatta | rautarouvitta | |
| instructive | — | rautarouvin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- “rautarouva”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03