Länsipohja
Finnish
The historical region Westrobothnia (darkest brown) on a map of Finland and Sweden.
The modern administrative region Västerbotten (brown) on the map of Sweden.
Etymology
From länsi (“West”) + Pohja(nmaa) (“land of the north”) or adapted from Swedish Västerbotten. Compare Pohjanmaa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlænsiˌpohjɑ/, [ˈlæns̠iˌpo̞xjɑ]
- Rhymes: -ohjɑ
- Syllabification: län‧si‧poh‧ja
Declension
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when talking about location; for example, "in Länsipohja" is Länsipohjassa.
| Inflection of Länsipohja (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Länsipohja | — | |
| genitive | Länsipohjan | — | |
| partitive | Länsipohjaa | — | |
| illative | Länsipohjaan | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Länsipohja | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Länsipohja | — |
| gen. | Länsipohjan | ||
| genitive | Länsipohjan | — | |
| partitive | Länsipohjaa | — | |
| inessive | Länsipohjassa | — | |
| elative | Länsipohjasta | — | |
| illative | Länsipohjaan | — | |
| adessive | Länsipohjalla | — | |
| ablative | Länsipohjalta | — | |
| allative | Länsipohjalle | — | |
| essive | Länsipohjana | — | |
| translative | Länsipohjaksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | Länsipohjatta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
| Possessive forms of Länsipohja (type koira) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | Länsipohjani | Länsipohjamme |
| 2nd person | Länsipohjasi | Länsipohjanne |
| 3rd person | Länsipohjansa | |
See also
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