Noun type: 7
Characteristics
Singular
| Nominative | nimi |
| Partitive | nimeä |
| Genetive | nimen |
| Accusative | nimen |
| Inessive | nimessä |
| Elative | nimestä |
| Illative | nimeen |
| Adessive | nimellä |
| Ablative | nimeltä |
| Allative | nimelle |
| Essive | nimenä |
| Translative | nimeksi |
| Abessive | nimettä |
Plural
| Nominative | nimet |
| Partitive | nimiä |
| Genetive | nimien |
| Accusative | nimet |
| Inessive | nimissä |
| Elative | nimistä |
| Illative | nimiin |
| Adessive | nimillä |
| Ablative | nimiltä |
| Allative | nimille |
| Essive | niminä |
| Translative | nimiksi |
| Abessive | nimittä |
| Instructive | nimin |
| Comitative | nimine |
Sample Sentences
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antaa nimeksi (to name, give as a name [to = allative])
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vannoa jonkun nimeen (to swear by)
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Mikä sinun nimesi on? (What is your name?)
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *nimi (compare Estonian nimi), from Proto-Uralic *nime (compare Northern Sami namma, Erzya лем (lem), Eastern Mari лӱм (lüm), Komi-Zyrian ним (ńim), Hungarian név, Tundra Nenets нюмʼ (nyum)); see the Proto-Uralic entry for more. See: Hungarian Nouns '
név'.
Verbs referencing "nimi"
English Nouns
name, Hungarian Nouns
név, English Nouns
nimisin.
Nouns inflected like nimi
alpi,
appi,
arki,
arpi,
haahti,
hanhi,
hanki,
happi,
hapsi,
hauki,
helmi,
helpi,
henki,
hetki,
hiki,
hirvi,
hyttysparvi,
impi,
indigosini,
joki, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)