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neljä
neljä
Finnish
(index ne)
Numeral
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Cardinal : neljä Ordinal : neljäs Adverbial : neljästi Multiplier : nelinkertainen | ||
Finnish Wikipedia article on neljä |
neljä
Usage notes
- See Appendix:Finnish numbers.
- The instructive plural nelin is more common than neljin and it is used e.g. in the phrase nelin kontin, "on all fours" and in the structure nelin verroin + comparative of an adjective, e.g. nelin verroin parempi, "four times as good".
Declension
Declension of neljä (type koira)
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Declension goes according to type koira (number 10), except of the two forms, which drop the j for better pronunciation (*): first instructive plural form nelin (the koira-type second form is neljin, which is lesser used) and temporal distributive form nelisin (koira-type form would have been neljisin).
Derived terms
- neli-
- nelijakoinen
- nelikenttä
- nelikko
- nelikkö
- nelikulmainen
- nelikulmio
- nelimaali
- nelimauste
- nelinkertainen
- nelinkontin
- nelisen
- nelisin
- nelistää
- neliö
- neljännes
- neljäs
- neljäsosa
- neljästään
- nelonen
- neloset