Bertta
Finnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editBertta
- a female given name, equivalent to English Bertha
- 1988, Ella Ojala, Pitkä kotimatka, Tammi, published 2005, →ISBN, page 300:
- - Meidän Bertta se on potra tyttö, vaikkei ihan aina ole ruoka-aikaan kotonakaan, Ukko Barndik kehaisi miniäänsä. - Eikä sillä ole ihan tavallinen nimikään. Niinkuin ei ole meidän sukunimikään tavallinen.
- - Our Bertta is a lively girl, even if she's not always home at dinner, Ukko Barndik praised her daughter-in-law. - And her name isn't usual either, nor is our surname.
- 2016, Niina Hakalahti, Lumilinna, Karisto, →ISBN, page 58:
- - Minkäs ikäisiä sun lapset nyt onkaan?
- Bertta on kuus ja Johannes yhdeksän.
Kalliovaara oli varmasti harkinnut lasten nimiä pitkään ja päätynyt turvallisiin mutta tyylikkään vanhahtaviin nimiin.- - How old were your children again?
- Bertta is six and Johannes nine years old.
Kalliovaara must've surely thought about the names for a long time and decided on safe but stylish, somewhat old-fashioned, name.
- - How old were your children again?
- The letter B in the Finnish spelling alphabet.
Usage notes
edit- Fairly popular as a given name in early 20th century.
Declension
editInflection of Bertta (Kotus type 9*C/kala, tt-t gradation) | |||
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nominative | Bertta | Bertat | |
genitive | Bertan | Berttojen | |
partitive | Berttaa | Berttoja | |
illative | Berttaan | Berttoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Bertta | Bertat | |
accusative | nom. | Bertta | Bertat |
gen. | Bertan | ||
genitive | Bertan | Berttojen Berttain rare | |
partitive | Berttaa | Berttoja | |
inessive | Bertassa | Bertoissa | |
elative | Bertasta | Bertoista | |
illative | Berttaan | Berttoihin | |
adessive | Bertalla | Bertoilla | |
ablative | Bertalta | Bertoilta | |
allative | Bertalle | Bertoille | |
essive | Berttana | Berttoina | |
translative | Bertaksi | Bertoiksi | |
abessive | Bertatta | Bertoitta | |
instructive | — | Bertoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
edit- Bertta is the 529th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 593 female individuals (and as a middle name to 359 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Categories:
- Finnish terms borrowed from Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ertːɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/ertːɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- Finnish terms with quotations
- Finnish kala-type nominals