Noun type: 18
Characteristics
Singular
| Nominative | lauantai |
| Partitive | lauantaita |
| Genetive | lauantain |
| Accusative | lauantain |
| Inessive | lauantaissa |
| Elative | lauantaista |
| Illative | lauantaihin |
| Adessive | lauantailla |
| Ablative | lauantailta |
| Allative | lauantaille |
| Essive | lauantaina |
| Translative | lauantaiksi |
| Abessive | lauantaitta |
Plural
| Nominative | lauantait |
| Partitive | lauantaita |
| Genetive | lauantaiden; lauantaitten |
| Accusative | lauantait |
| Inessive | lauantaissa |
| Elative | lauantaista |
| Illative | lauantaihin |
| Adessive | lauantailla |
| Ablative | lauantailta |
| Allative | lauantaille |
| Essive | lauantaina |
| Translative | lauantaiksi |
| Abessive | lauantaitta |
| Instructive | lauantain |
| Comitative | lauantaine |
Sample Sentences
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lauantaina liemi latkittiin (on Saturday, the broth was lapped up)
Etymology
From earlier *laugantaki (compare dialectal lauvantaki), borrowed from North Germanic (compare Old Norse laugardagr). The meaning is "bathing day", which is fitting as bathing in a sauna on Saturday evenings remains common in Finland. Estonian laupäev, Votic laukopäive, Ingrian laukopäivä are from the same origin. See: Old Norse Nouns '
laugardagr'.
Nouns inflected like lauantai
ei-kenenkään-maa,
frisbee,
gnuu,
go-go,
hai,
helluntai,
herkkäilmeinen,
homssantuu,
hurlumhei,
huuhaa,
häät,
jää,
jöö,
kaakaovoi,
kanapee,
kehrääjäkoi,
khii,
kireäilmeinen,
koi,
kookosvoi, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)