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-kas
-kas
Estonian
Suffix
-kas (genitive -ka, partitive -kat)
- Derives adjectives from some nouns
Derived terms
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Estonian_words_suffixed_with_-kas'>Estonian words suffixed with -kas</a>
Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *-k'as.
Suffix
-kas (front vowel harmony variant -käs)
- -y, -ful; a suffix that can be used to turn many, but not all, nouns into adjectives that indicate abundant presence of the thing expressed by the noun. When the suffix is added to the noun, the stem changes in accordance with consonant gradation.
Declension
| Inflection of -kas (Kotus type 41/vieras, kk-k gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | -kas | -kkaat | |
| genitive | -kkaan | -kkaiden -kkaitten |
|
| partitive | -kasta | -kkaita | |
| illative | -kkaaseen | -kkaisiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | -kas | -kkaat | |
| accusative | nom. | -kas | -kkaat |
| gen. | -kkaan | ||
| genitive | -kkaan | -kkaiden -kkaitten |
|
| partitive | -kasta | -kkaita | |
| inessive | -kkaassa | -kkaissa | |
| elative | -kkaasta | -kkaista | |
| illative | -kkaaseen | -kkaisiin -kkaihinrare |
|
| adessive | -kkaalla | -kkailla | |
| ablative | -kkaalta | -kkailta | |
| allative | -kkaalle | -kkaille | |
| essive | -kkaana | -kkaina | |
| translative | -kkaaksi | -kkaiksi | |
| instructive | — | -kkain | |
| abessive | -kkaatta | -kkaitta | |
| comitative | — | -kkaine | |
Derived terms
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Finnish_words_suffixed_with_-kas'>Finnish words suffixed with -kas</a>