Noun type: 7
Characteristics
Singular
| Nominative | hirvi |
| Partitive | hirveä |
| Genetive | hirven |
| Accusative | hirven |
| Inessive | hirvessä |
| Elative | hirvestä |
| Illative | hirveen |
| Adessive | hirvellä |
| Ablative | hirveltä |
| Allative | hirvelle |
| Essive | hirvenä |
| Translative | hirveksi |
| Abessive | hirvettä |
Plural
| Nominative | hirvet |
| Partitive | hirviä |
| Genetive | hirvien |
| Accusative | hirvet |
| Inessive | hirvissä |
| Elative | hirvistä |
| Illative | hirviin |
| Adessive | hirvillä |
| Ablative | hirviltä |
| Allative | hirville |
| Essive | hirvinä |
| Translative | hirviksi |
| Abessive | hirvittä |
| Instructive | hirvin |
| Comitative | hirvine |
Sample Sentences
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *hirvi (compare Estonian hirv, Veps hirbʹ), borrowed from Proto-Baltic *širˀwis (compare Old Prussian sirwis (“deer”), Proto-Balto-Slavic *śírˀnāˀ (“roe deer”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“head, top, horn”) (compare Latin cervus). Doublet of sarvi. See: Latin Nouns '
cervus'.
Nouns inflected like hirvi
alpi,
appi,
arki,
arpi,
haahti,
hanhi,
hanki,
happi,
hapsi,
hauki,
helmi,
helpi,
henki,
hetki,
hiki,
hirvi,
hyttysparvi,
impi,
indigosini,
joki, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)