seitsemän

Finnish

Finnish numbers (edit)
70
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    Cardinal: seitsemän
    Colloquial counting form: see
    Ordinal: seitsemäs
    Colloquial ordinal: seikki, seiska
    Ordinal abbreviation: 7.
    Adverbial: seitsemästi
    Multiplier: seitsenkertainen
    Fractional: seitsemäsosa, seitsemännes
Finnish Wikipedia article on 7

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *säic'en, from Proto-Uralic *ćäjćemä (*śäjćemä). Cognate with Estonian seitse (seven), Erzya сисем (sisem, seven). The original nominative form (seitsen) has been largely displaced by the genitive form, probably by analogy with kahdeksan and yhdeksän.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsei̯tsemæn/, [ˈs̠e̞i̯ts̠e̞mæn]
  • Rhymes: -eitsemæn
  • Syllabification(key): seit‧se‧män

Numeral

seitsemän

  1. seven
  2. (figurative) used idiomatically with sen to suggest a great number
    Minun piti toimittaa sen seitsemän asiaa.I had any number of things to do.

Usage notes

  • See Appendix:Finnish numbers.

Declension

Declension is the same as type koira (number 10), except of the nominative singular form (*), where an -n is added at the end.

Derived terms

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