laito
Finnish
Adjective
laito (comparative laidompi, superlative laidoin)
- shallow
- 1943, Ornis Fennica:
- ...joitakin yksilöitä aterioimassa järven laidolla etelärannalla.
- ...some specimens having a meal on the shallow southern shore of the lake.
- 1972, Suomen kalastuslehti:
- Tämä pieni kala ilmautuu kaikkialla maassamme; se oleksii virroissa ja jo'issa kivien alla laidossa vedessä.
- This small fish is found all over our country; it lingers in streams and rivers under the rocks in shallow water.
- 2018, Charles Dickens, Waldemar Churberg (translation), editor, David Copperfield:
- Hänellä oli sellaiset laidot, mustat silmät...
- He had that kind of shallow black eye...
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Declension
| Inflection of laito (Kotus type 1/valo, t-d gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | laito | laidot | |
| genitive | laidon | laitojen | |
| partitive | laitoa | laitoja | |
| illative | laitoon | laitoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | laito | laidot | |
| accusative | nom. | laito | laidot |
| gen. | laidon | ||
| genitive | laidon | laitojen | |
| partitive | laitoa | laitoja | |
| inessive | laidossa | laidoissa | |
| elative | laidosta | laidoista | |
| illative | laitoon | laitoihin | |
| adessive | laidolla | laidoilla | |
| ablative | laidolta | laidoilta | |
| allative | laidolle | laidoille | |
| essive | laitona | laitoina | |
| translative | laidoksi | laidoiksi | |
| instructive | — | laidoin | |
| abessive | laidotta | laidoitta | |
| comitative | — | laitoine | |