Noun type: 7
Characteristics
Singular
| Nominative | hiki |
| Partitive | hikeä |
| Genetive | hien |
| Accusative | hien |
| Inessive | hiessä |
| Elative | hiestä |
| Illative | hikeen |
| Adessive | hiellä |
| Ablative | hieltä |
| Allative | hielle |
| Essive | hikenä |
| Translative | hieksi |
| Abessive | hiettä |
Plural
| Nominative | hiet |
| Partitive | hikiä |
| Genetive | hikien |
| Accusative | hiet |
| Inessive | hiissä |
| Elative | hiistä |
| Illative | hikiin |
| Adessive | hiillä |
| Ablative | hiiltä |
| Allative | hiille |
| Essive | hikinä |
| Translative | hiiksi |
| Abessive | hiittä |
| Instructive | hiin |
| Comitative | hikine |
Sample Sentences
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hiellä ja vaivalla (by the sweat of one's brow)
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Tuollaisessa helteessä tulee äkkiä hiki. (In that kind of heat, you start to sweat very quickly.)
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Minulla/minun on hiki. (I'm sweating/sweaty.)
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *hiki, of unknown further origin. Cognate with Estonian higi.
Nouns inflected like hiki
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)