Noun type: 9
Characteristics
Singular
| Nominative | kala |
| Partitive | kalaa |
| Genetive | kalan |
| Accusative | kalan |
| Inessive | kalassa |
| Elative | kalasta |
| Illative | kalaan |
| Adessive | kalalla |
| Ablative | kalalta |
| Allative | kalalle |
| Essive | kalana |
| Translative | kalaksi |
| Abessive | kalatta |
Plural
| Nominative | kalat |
| Partitive | kaloja |
| Genetive | kalojen |
| Accusative | kalat |
| Inessive | kaloissa |
| Elative | kaloista |
| Illative | kaloihin |
| Adessive | kaloilla |
| Ablative | kaloilta |
| Allative | kaloille |
| Essive | kaloina |
| Translative | kaloiksi |
| Abessive | kaloitta |
| Instructive | kaloin |
| Comitative | kaloine |
Sample Sentences
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Hauki on kala. (A pike is a fish.)
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Tässä järvessä on paljon kalaa. (There's lots of fish in this lake.)
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Syön usein kalaa. (I often eat fish.)
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olla kalassa (to be fishing)
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käydä kalassa (to go fishing (and come back))
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mennä kalaan (to go fishing)
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lähteä kalaan (to (leave and) go fishing)
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lähteä kalalle (to (leave and) go fishing)
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Käytkö usein kalassa? (Do you often go fishing?)
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Mennään kalaravintolaan. (Let's go to a seafood restaurant.)
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *kala (compare Estonian kala), from Proto-Uralic *kala (compare Northern Sami guolli, Erzya кал (kal), Eastern Mari кол (kol), Hungarian hal, Tundra Nenets халя (xalya)). See: Hungarian Nouns '
hal'.
Verbs referencing "kala"
Russian Nouns
калуга.
Nouns inflected like kala
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)