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Definition 2024


See also: Appendix:Variations of "yo"

Finnish

Noun

period of day
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period of day
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  1. night
    Yöllä on pimeää.
    It is dark at night.
Declension
Inflection of (Kotus type 19/suo, no gradation)
nominative yöt
genitive yön öiden
öitten
partitive yötä öitä
illative yöhön öihin
singular plural
nominative yöt
accusative nom. yöt
gen. yön
genitive yön öiden
öitten
partitive yötä öitä
inessive yössä öissä
elative yöstä öistä
illative yöhön öihin
adessive yöllä öillä
ablative yöltä öiltä
allative yölle öille
essive yönä öinä
translative yöksi öiksi
instructive öin
abessive yöttä öittä
comitative öineen

Usage notes

The concepts ilta (evening) and (night) are defined slightly differently in Finnish and English. is generally regarded as the period of day normally devoted for sleeping, i.e. roughly the time between 10..11 p.m. and 6..7 a.m. The time between 5..6 p.m. and 10..11 p.m. is referred to as ilta (evening), but in English it is often called "night" as e.g. in "I have a meeting tonight". The term tiistaiyö (literally, Tuesday night) would actually refer to the hours from approximately 23:00 Monday to 06:00 Tuesday, which in standard English would be referred to as Monday night (even though Tuesday technically begins during this period). [1]

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References

  1. http://yle.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/2012/04/lumi_ei_pahemmin_sotkenut_liikennetta_tiistaina_3380767.html

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *öö, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *üje. Cognates include Estonian öö and Hungarian éj.

Noun

(genitive yön, partitive yödy)

  1. night

Declension