Northern Sami

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Norwegian advent, Swedish advent, Finnish adventti.

Pronunciation

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  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈatːvea̯nta/

Noun

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adveanta

  1. Advent

Inflection

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Even a-stem, nt-ntt gradation
Nominative adveanta
Genitive adveantta
Singular Plural
Nominative adveanta adveanttat
Accusative adveantta adveanttaid
Genitive adveantta adveanttaid
Illative advēntii adveanttaide
Locative adveanttas adveanttain
Comitative adveanttain adveanttaiguin
Essive adveantan
Possessive forms
Singular Dual Plural
1st person adveantan adveantame adveantamet
2nd person adveantat adveantade adveantadet
3rd person adveantas adveantaska adveantaset

Further reading

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  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland