vesiraja
Finnish
editEtymology
editvesi (“water”) + raja (“border”)
Pronunciation
editNoun
editvesiraja
- waterfront (the line that separates a body of water from the dry land, or the land in the immediate vicinity of it)
- (nautical) waterline (line formed by the surface of the water on the hull of a ship when she is afloat)
- waterline (line showing where the water has been)
- (colloquial) The imaginary line at the waist, below which the pubic hair grows.
Declension
editInflection of vesiraja (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | vesiraja | vesirajat | |
genitive | vesirajan | vesirajojen | |
partitive | vesirajaa | vesirajoja | |
illative | vesirajaan | vesirajoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | vesiraja | vesirajat | |
accusative | nom. | vesiraja | vesirajat |
gen. | vesirajan | ||
genitive | vesirajan | vesirajojen vesirajain rare | |
partitive | vesirajaa | vesirajoja | |
inessive | vesirajassa | vesirajoissa | |
elative | vesirajasta | vesirajoista | |
illative | vesirajaan | vesirajoihin | |
adessive | vesirajalla | vesirajoilla | |
ablative | vesirajalta | vesirajoilta | |
allative | vesirajalle | vesirajoille | |
essive | vesirajana | vesirajoina | |
translative | vesirajaksi | vesirajoiksi | |
abessive | vesirajatta | vesirajoitta | |
instructive | — | vesirajoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
edit- “vesiraja”, 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 2023-07-04