Pyhäjärvi

Pyhäjärvi

Finnish

Etymology

pyhä (“sacred”) +‎ järvi (“lake”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpyhæˌjærʋi/, [ˈpyɦæˌjærʋi]
• Rhymes: -ærʋi
• Syllabification^(key): py‧hä‧jär‧vi

Proper noun

Pyhäjärvi

1. A town in North Ostrobothnia, Finland.

   Synonyms: (historical) Pyhäjärvi Ol, (historical) Pyhäsalmi

2. A former municipality of Uusimaa, merged with Karkkila in 1969.

   Synonym: (historical) Pyhäjärvi Ul

3. A former Finnish municipality in the Karelian Isthmus, now the Russian municipality Отрадное (Otradnoje).

   Synonyms: (historical) Pyhäjärvi Vl, (historical) Pyhäjärvi Vpl

4. Any of a number of lakes in Finland.

Usage notes

• (town, municipality): The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used when talking about location; for example, "in Pyhäjärvi" is Pyhäjärvellä.
• The town in Northern Ostrobothnia was called Pyhäjärvi Ol until 1962, Pyhäjärvi in 1963-92, Pyhäsalmi in 1993-95 and again Pyhäjärvi from 1996 onwards.

Declension

Inflection of Pyhäjärvi (Kotus type 7/ovi, no gradation)
nominative		Pyhäjärvi	Pyhäjärvet
genitive		Pyhäjärven	Pyhäjärvien
partitive		Pyhäjärveä	Pyhäjärviä
illative		Pyhäjärveen	Pyhäjärviin
		singular	plural
nominative		Pyhäjärvi	Pyhäjärvet
accusative	nom.	Pyhäjärvi	Pyhäjärvet
	gen.	Pyhäjärven
genitive		Pyhäjärven	Pyhäjärvien
partitive		Pyhäjärveä	Pyhäjärviä
inessive		Pyhäjärvessä	Pyhäjärvissä
elative		Pyhäjärvestä	Pyhäjärvistä
illative		Pyhäjärveen	Pyhäjärviin
adessive		Pyhäjärvellä	Pyhäjärvillä
ablative		Pyhäjärveltä	Pyhäjärviltä
allative		Pyhäjärvelle	Pyhäjärville
essive		Pyhäjärvenä	Pyhäjärvinä
translative		Pyhäjärveksi	Pyhäjärviksi
instructive		—	Pyhäjärvin
abessive		Pyhäjärvettä	Pyhäjärvittä
comitative		—	Pyhäjärvineen

Possessive forms of Pyhäjärvi (type ovi)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Pyhäjärveni	Pyhäjärvemme
2nd person	Pyhäjärvesi	Pyhäjärvenne
3rd person	Pyhäjärvensä