kansa

See also: Kansa and känsä

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑnsɑ/, [ˈkɑns̠ɑ]
  • Rhymes: -ɑnsɑ
  • Syllabification(key): kan‧sa

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *kansa, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *hansō (earlier *hansā). Cognate with Livvi kanzu, Veps kanz.

Noun

kansa

  1. people, nation (community of people united by shared culture or ethnicity, or the inhabitants of a country)
  2. people, populace (the inhabitants of a region)
  3. people (an undefined mass of people)
    Torilla on tänään paljon kansaa.
    There are a lot of people in the market today.
  4. people (the common people)
    Hän nousi kansan riveistä politiikan huipulle.
    He rose from the ranks of the common people to the top of politics.
Usage notes
  • In the sense "nation, people" the terms kansa and kansakunta are nearly synonymous, although kansa tends to refer to a cultural or ethnic entity and kansakunta to a political entity.
Declension
Inflection of kansa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative kansa kansat
genitive kansan kansojen
partitive kansaa kansoja
illative kansaan kansoihin
singular plural
nominative kansa kansat
accusative nom. kansa kansat
gen. kansan
genitive kansan kansojen
kansainrare
partitive kansaa kansoja
inessive kansassa kansoissa
elative kansasta kansoista
illative kansaan kansoihin
adessive kansalla kansoilla
ablative kansalta kansoilta
allative kansalle kansoille
essive kansana kansoina
translative kansaksi kansoiksi
instructive kansoin
abessive kansatta kansoitta
comitative kansoineen
Possessive forms of kansa (type kala)
possessor singular plural
1st person kansani kansamme
2nd person kansasi kansanne
3rd person kansansa
Synonyms
Derived terms
Compounds

Etymology 2

From kanssa. Compare kans.

Postposition

kansa

  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of kanssa.

Anagrams


Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kansa, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *hansō. Cognates include Finnish kansa and Veps kanz.

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈkɑnsɑ/, [ˈkɑnz̠]
  • (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈkɑnsɑ/, [ˈkɑnʒ̥ɑ]
  • Rhymes: -ɑnsɑ
  • Hyphenation: kan‧sa
  • Homophone: kans

Noun

kansa

  1. people, nation
    • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 3:
      Iƶorat laatiit kansan, kumpa keelen poolest kuuluu läns-fenniläisiin kansoin gruppaa ja sil viisii i iƶoroin keeli kuuluu läns-fenniläisee keelisisteemaa.
      The Ingrians make up a people, that based on their language belongs to the group of Finnic peoples and as such the language of Ingrians also belongs to the Finnic language family.

Declension

Declension of kansa (type 3/kana, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative kansa kansat
genitive kansan kansoin
partitive kansaa kansoja
illative kansaa kansoi
inessive kansaas kansois
elative kansast kansoist
allative kansalle kansoille
adessive kansaal kansoil
ablative kansalt kansoilt
translative kansaks kansoiks
essive kansanna, kansaan kansoinna, kansoin
exessive1) kansant kansoint
1) obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

Synonyms

References

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 132
  • Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку, →ISBN, page 53

Japanese

Romanization

kansa

  1. Rōmaji transcription of かんさ

Meänkieli

Etymology

Cognate to Finnish kanssa.

Adverb

kansa

  1. also

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English cancer.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

kansa (n class, plural kansa)

  1. cancer (disease of uncontrolled cellular proliferation)

Synonyms


Tagalog

Noun

kansa

  1. metal
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