Noun type: 17
Characteristics
Singular
| Nominative | ehtoo |
| Partitive | ehtoota |
| Genetive | ehtoon |
| Accusative | ehtoon |
| Inessive | ehtoossa |
| Elative | ehtoosta |
| Illative | ehtooseen |
| Adessive | ehtoolla |
| Ablative | ehtoolta |
| Allative | ehtoolle |
| Essive | ehtoona |
| Translative | ehtooksi |
| Abessive | ehtootta |
Plural
| Nominative | ehtoo |
| Partitive | ehtoo |
| Genetive | ehtoo; ehtoo |
| Accusative | ehtoo |
| Inessive | ehtoo |
| Elative | ehtoo |
| Illative | ehtoo; ehtoo |
| Adessive | ehtoo |
| Ablative | ehtoo |
| Allative | ehtoo |
| Essive | ehtoo |
| Translative | ehtoo |
| Abessive | ehtoo |
| Instructive | ehtoo |
| Comitative | ehtoo |
Sample Sentences
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elämän ehtoo (lit. "evening of the life") (sunset (sense "final period of life"))
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Ja Jumala kutsui valkeuden päiväksi, ja pimeyden hän kutsui yöksi. Ja tuli ehtoo, ja tuli aamu, ensimmäinen päivä. (And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.) [1933/1938, Pyhä Raamattu [The Holy Bible], Helsinki: Suomen Pipliaseura, Ensimmäinen Mooseksen Kirja (Genesis) 1:5:]
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *ëktago (compare Estonian õhtu, Votic ohtogo), derived from *ektä (whence dialectal ehtä), likely related to Northern Sami ikte (“yesterday”) (possibly borrowed from Finnic). Replaced in the standard language in the 19th century with ilta, which was traditionally used in the eastern dialects (as opposed to ehtoo, which was traditionally a Western Finnish word).
Nouns inflected like ehtoo
ehtoo,
epuu,
haaskuu,
hakkuu,
haloo,
harmaa,
hurraa,
hynttyyt,
kahluu,
kaipuu,
kehruu,
kerjuu,
keruu,
korjuu,
leikkuu,
makuu,
paikkuu,
palttoo,
paluu,
peluu, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)