sattuma
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sattuma
- chance, coincidence, happenstance (random occurrence)
- jättää sattuman varaan ― to leave to chance
- coincidence (event that appears to be connected when it is not)
- (informal) floaty (particle of food, etc., found floating in liquid)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of sattuma (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | sattuma | sattumat | |
genitive | sattuman | sattumien | |
partitive | sattumaa | sattumia | |
illative | sattumaan | sattumiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | sattuma | sattumat | |
accusative | nom. | sattuma | sattumat |
gen. | sattuman | ||
genitive | sattuman | sattumien sattumain rare | |
partitive | sattumaa | sattumia | |
inessive | sattumassa | sattumissa | |
elative | sattumasta | sattumista | |
illative | sattumaan | sattumiin | |
adessive | sattumalla | sattumilla | |
ablative | sattumalta | sattumilta | |
allative | sattumalle | sattumille | |
essive | sattumana | sattumina | |
translative | sattumaksi | sattumiksi | |
abessive | sattumatta | sattumitta | |
instructive | — | sattumin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sattuma”, 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 2023-07-03