Noun type: 1
Characteristics
Singular
| Nominative | kurkku |
| Partitive | kurkkua |
| Genetive | kurkun |
| Accusative | kurkun |
| Inessive | kurkussa |
| Elative | kurkusta |
| Illative | kurkkuun |
| Adessive | kurkulla |
| Ablative | kurkulta |
| Allative | kurkulle |
| Essive | kurkkuna |
| Translative | kurkuksi |
| Abessive | kurkutta |
Plural
| Nominative | kurkut |
| Partitive | kurkkuja |
| Genetive | kurkkujen |
| Accusative | kurkut |
| Inessive | kurkuissa |
| Elative | kurkuista |
| Illative | kurkkuihin |
| Adessive | kurkuilla |
| Ablative | kurkuilta |
| Allative | kurkuille |
| Essive | kurkkuina |
| Translative | kurkuiksi |
| Abessive | kurkuitta |
| Instructive | kurkuin |
| Comitative | kurkkuine |
Sample Sentences
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mustakurkkurautiainen (black-throated accentor)
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kaasuttimen kurkku (the throat of a carburetor)
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Joskus isku menee ohi ja terän sijasta klapiin osuu kirveen kurkku. (Sometimes one misses and the log is hit by the belly of the haft instead of the axe head.)
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *kurkku (compare Estonian, Livonian, and Veps kurk), borrowed from Proto-Norse [script needed] (*kwerku), from Proto-Germanic *kwerkō (compare Old Norse kverk, Swedish Kvarken). See: Old Norse Nouns '
kverk'.
Nouns inflected like kurkku
aalto,
aamu,
aasinpotku,
aatelisto,
aatto,
abo,
adagio,
afro,
ahdinko,
ahjo,
aho,
aino,
ainu,
airo,
aironveto,
aito,
aivo,
aivot,
ajatuskatko,
ajo, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)