Noun type: 48
Characteristics
Singular
| Nominative | alue |
| Partitive | aluetta |
| Genetive | alueen |
| Accusative | alueen |
| Inessive | alueessa |
| Elative | alueesta |
| Illative | alueeseen |
| Adessive | alueella |
| Ablative | alueelta |
| Allative | alueelle |
| Essive | alueena |
| Translative | alueeksi |
| Abessive | alueetta |
Plural
| Nominative | alueet |
| Partitive | alueita |
| Genetive | alueiden; alueitten |
| Accusative | alueet |
| Inessive | alueissa |
| Elative | alueista |
| Illative | alueisiin; alueihin |
| Adessive | alueilla |
| Ablative | alueilta |
| Allative | alueille |
| Essive | alueina |
| Translative | alueiksi |
| Abessive | alueitta |
| Instructive | aluein |
| Comitative | alueine |
Sample Sentences
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metsätalousalue (forestry reserve)
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mikroaaltoalue (microwave band)
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bassoalue (bass register)
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diskanttialue (treble register)
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *alovëh. Equivalent to ala (“area”) + -ue. First attested in 1829 in an edition of the newspaper Oulun Wiikko-Sanomia. According to SSA, the form alue may have been adopted in the standard language as a result of Karelian influence (Karelian aloveh), being native only in the 'easternmost' of dialects; the Tavastian dialectal word aloo is probably related, however.
Nouns inflected like alue
aarre,
aate,
aave,
ahde,
ahne,
aidanne,
aie,
aihe,
aine,
ajankuluke,
ajanviete,
alanne,
alkeet,
aloite,
aloke,
altiste,
alue,
aluke,
amme,
ane, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)