Noun type: 9
Characteristics
Singular
| Nominative | sija |
| Partitive | sijaa |
| Genetive | sijan |
| Accusative | sijan |
| Inessive | sijassa |
| Elative | sijasta |
| Illative | sijaan |
| Adessive | sijalla |
| Ablative | sijalta |
| Allative | sijalle |
| Essive | sijana |
| Translative | sijaksi |
| Abessive | sijatta |
Plural
| Nominative | sijat |
| Partitive | sijoja |
| Genetive | sijojen |
| Accusative | sijat |
| Inessive | sijoissa |
| Elative | sijoista |
| Illative | sijoihin |
| Adessive | sijoilla |
| Ablative | sijoilta |
| Allative | sijoille |
| Essive | sijoina |
| Translative | sijoiksi |
| Abessive | sijoitta |
| Instructive | sijoin |
| Comitative | sijoine |
Sample Sentences
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *sija (compare Ludian šija), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *stiją (compare English sty in pigsty and Swedish stia in svinstia). First adapted to mean “(grammatical) case” by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot in 1836. See: English Nouns '
sty', Swedish Nouns '
stia'.
Nouns inflected like sija
aapa,
aatra,
aava,
abbedissa,
abrakadabra,
abskissa,
adventtiaika,
aerodynamiikka,
afta,
agenda,
ahdelauha,
ahkeraliisa,
ahma,
ahminta,
ahnehdinta,
aika,
aina,
aisa,
aita,
aitta, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)