Noun type: 32
Characteristics
Singular
| Nominative | paimen |
| Partitive | paimenta |
| Genetive | paimenen |
| Accusative | paimenen |
| Inessive | paimenessa |
| Elative | paimenesta |
| Illative | paimeneen |
| Adessive | paimenella |
| Ablative | paimenelta |
| Allative | paimenelle |
| Essive | paimenena |
| Translative | paimeneksi |
| Abessive | paimenetta |
Plural
| Nominative | paimenet |
| Partitive | paimenia |
| Genetive | paimenien; paimenten |
| Accusative | paimenet |
| Inessive | paimenissa |
| Elative | paimenista |
| Illative | paimeniin |
| Adessive | paimenilla |
| Ablative | paimenilta |
| Allative | paimenille |
| Essive | paimenina |
| Translative | paimeniksi |
| Abessive | paimenitta |
| Instructive | paimenin |
| Comitative | paimenine |
Sample Sentences
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *paimën, borrowed from a Baltic language (compare Lithuanian piemuo), from Proto-Indo-European *poh₂imḗn (compare Ancient Greek ποιμήν (poimḗn)), from *peh₂- (“to protect”) (compare Latin pastor). Related to Karelian paimoi. See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
ποιμήν', Latin Nouns '
pastor'.
Nouns inflected like paimen
aallotar,
aamen,
ahven,
espanjatar,
haiven,
haltijatar,
hengetär,
herttuatar,
hiven,
hoitajatar,
huomen,
höyhen,
ien,
japanitar,
johtajatar,
joutsen,
jumalatar,
jäsen,
kaunotar,
kenraalitar, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)