aviovaimo
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]aviovaimo
- wife (married woman)
- feme covert
Usage notes
[edit]- Nowadays when the term vaimo alone means "wife" in modern Finnish, some consider it superfluous to add the noun avio (“marriage”) on it.
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of aviovaimo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | aviovaimo | aviovaimot | |
| genitive | aviovaimon | aviovaimojen | |
| partitive | aviovaimoa | aviovaimoja | |
| illative | aviovaimoon | aviovaimoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | aviovaimo | aviovaimot | |
| accusative | nom. | aviovaimo | aviovaimot |
| gen. | aviovaimon | ||
| genitive | aviovaimon | aviovaimojen | |
| partitive | aviovaimoa | aviovaimoja | |
| inessive | aviovaimossa | aviovaimoissa | |
| elative | aviovaimosta | aviovaimoista | |
| illative | aviovaimoon | aviovaimoihin | |
| adessive | aviovaimolla | aviovaimoilla | |
| ablative | aviovaimolta | aviovaimoilta | |
| allative | aviovaimolle | aviovaimoille | |
| essive | aviovaimona | aviovaimoina | |
| translative | aviovaimoksi | aviovaimoiksi | |
| abessive | aviovaimotta | aviovaimoitta | |
| instructive | — | aviovaimoin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- “aviovaimo”, 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 2023-07-02