oltavat
Finnish
(index ol)
Etymology
- Plural form of oltava, passive present participle of olla.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ol‧ta‧vat
- IPA(key): [ˈoltɑʋɑt]
Noun
oltavat
- (plural only) conditions, circumstances; always with an attribute; various other ways of translating into English exist.
- Minkälaiset oltavat vankileirillä oli?
- What were the circumstances like in the penal colony?
- Eläimillä ei ollut sinä kesänä huonot oltavat, vaikka ne tekivät kovaa työtä.
- The animals were not badly off throughout that summer, in spite of the hardness of their work. (1945, George Orwell, Animal Farm)
- Meillä on täällä hyvät oltavat.
- We have it good here.
- Minkälaiset oltavat vankileirillä oli?
Declension
| Inflection of oltavat (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | — | oltavat | |
| genitive | — | oltavien | |
| partitive | — | oltavia | |
| illative | — | oltaviin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | — | oltavat | |
| accusative | nom. | — | oltavat |
| gen. | — | ||
| genitive | — | oltavien oltavainrare | |
| partitive | — | oltavia | |
| inessive | — | oltavissa | |
| elative | — | oltavista | |
| illative | — | oltaviin | |
| adessive | — | oltavilla | |
| ablative | — | oltavilta | |
| allative | — | oltaville | |
| essive | — | oltavina | |
| translative | — | oltaviksi | |
| instructive | — | oltavin | |
| abessive | — | oltavitta | |
| comitative | — | oltavineen | |
Synonyms
- (circumstances): olosuhteet
Anagrams
- valotta, voltata