"-na" meaning in Finnish

See -na in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Suffix

Forms: -nä [front-vowel]
Etymology: From Proto-Finnic *-na, from the Proto-Uralic locative case ending *-na. Etymology templates: {{etymid|fi|essive}}, {{inh|fi|urj-fin-pro|*-na|id=essive}} Proto-Finnic *-na, {{inh|fi|urj-pro|-}} Proto-Uralic Head templates: {{head|fi|suffixes|front vowel harmony variant|-nä||-{{{stem}}}-||-{{{stem2}}}-||-{{{stem}}}-||-{{{stem2}}}-|linguistic notation|-nA||{{{comp}}}||{{{sup}}}|cat2=|f2nolink=1|f3nolink=1|f4nolink=1|f5nolink=1|f6nolink=1|f7nolink=1|f8nolink=1|head=}} -na (front vowel harmony variant -nä, linguistic notation -nA), {{fi-suffix|inflectional|var=nä}} -na (front vowel harmony variant -nä, linguistic notation -nA)
  1. Forms the essive case. Tags: morpheme Derived forms: -nnoin
    Sense id: en--na-fi-suffix-oB2qOgrb Categories (other): Pages with 32 entries, Pages with entries, Finnish entries with incorrect language header, Pages using catfix Disambiguation of Pages with 32 entries: 3 4 6 4 9 6 1 1 0 0 0 7 7 10 6 3 1 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 0 0 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 4 5 4 9 5 1 0 0 0 0 6 7 9 5 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 6 3 10 4 0 Disambiguation of Finnish entries with incorrect language header: 62 35 3 Disambiguation of Pages using catfix: 14 9 2 16 10 5 5 1 2 10 1 1 11 5 7 2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Suffix

Forms: -nä [front-vowel], -ina [alternative]
Etymology: From Proto-Finnic *-na, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *-na. Etymology templates: {{etymid|fi|nominal}}, {{inh|fi|urj-fin-pro|*-na|id=nominal}} Proto-Finnic *-na, {{inh|fi|fiu-pro|*-na}} Proto-Finno-Ugric *-na Head templates: {{head|fi|suffixes|front vowel harmony variant|-nä||-{{{stem}}}-||-{{{stem2}}}-||-{{{stem}}}-||-{{{stem2}}}-|linguistic notation|-nA||{{{comp}}}||{{{sup}}}|cat2=|f2nolink=1|f3nolink=1|f4nolink=1|f5nolink=1|f6nolink=1|f7nolink=1|f8nolink=1|head=}} -na (front vowel harmony variant -nä, linguistic notation -nA), {{fi-suffix|noun|var=nä}} -na (front vowel harmony variant -nä, linguistic notation -nA)
  1. Forms action nouns from certain verbs, mainly related to sound, whose first infinitive ends in -sta. Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en--na-fi-suffix-SnZ0h90b
  2. Forms some diminutive nouns. Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en--na-fi-suffix-8BiBscvo
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: -nainen, -ne
Etymology number: 2

Alternative forms

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          "english": "on a beautiful morning",
          "text": "eräänä kauniina aamuna",
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        },
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          "english": "You used to think I was beautiful.",
          "text": "Ennen pidit minua kauniina.",
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Download raw JSONL data for -na meaning in Finnish (4.2kB)

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  "msg": "unrecognized head form: linguistic notation -nA",
  "path": [
    "-na"
  ],
  "section": "Finnish",
  "subsection": "suffix",
  "title": "-na",
  "trace": ""
}

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  "msg": "unrecognized head form: linguistic notation -nA",
  "path": [
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  "title": "-na",
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