kaivaja
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]kaivaa (“to dig, excavate”) + -ja (“-er”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kaivaja
- digger (one who digs)
- kullankaivaja ― gold digger
- excavator (one who excavates)
- miner (any of the South American ground-dwelling birds of the genus Geositta)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of kaivaja (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | kaivaja | kaivajat | |
genitive | kaivajan | kaivajien | |
partitive | kaivajaa | kaivajia | |
illative | kaivajaan | kaivajiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | kaivaja | kaivajat | |
accusative | nom. | kaivaja | kaivajat |
gen. | kaivajan | ||
genitive | kaivajan | kaivajien kaivajain rare | |
partitive | kaivajaa | kaivajia | |
inessive | kaivajassa | kaivajissa | |
elative | kaivajasta | kaivajista | |
illative | kaivajaan | kaivajiin | |
adessive | kaivajalla | kaivajilla | |
ablative | kaivajalta | kaivajilta | |
allative | kaivajalle | kaivajille | |
essive | kaivajana | kaivajina | |
translative | kaivajaksi | kaivajiksi | |
abessive | kaivajatta | kaivajitta | |
instructive | — | kaivajin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Hyponyms
[edit]- (bird of the genus Geositta):
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “kaivaja”, 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