Noun type: 9
Characteristics
Singular
| Nominative | vakka |
| Partitive | vakkaa |
| Genetive | vakan |
| Accusative | vakan |
| Inessive | vakassa |
| Elative | vakasta |
| Illative | vakkaan |
| Adessive | vakalla |
| Ablative | vakalta |
| Allative | vakalle |
| Essive | vakkana |
| Translative | vakaksi |
| Abessive | vakatta |
Plural
| Nominative | vakat |
| Partitive | vakkoja |
| Genetive | vakkojen |
| Accusative | vakat |
| Inessive | vakoissa |
| Elative | vakoista |
| Illative | vakkoihin |
| Adessive | vakoilla |
| Ablative | vakoilta |
| Allative | vakoille |
| Essive | vakkoina |
| Translative | vakoiksi |
| Abessive | vakoitta |
| Instructive | vakoin |
| Comitative | vakkoine |
Sample Sentences
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pitää kynttiläänsä vakan alla (to hide one's light under a bushel)
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vakka kantensa valitsee (a man is known by the company he keeps)
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *vakka, borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (compare Latvian vāks (“lid, cover”), Lithuanian vókas (“cover, eyelid”)). See: Latvian Nouns '
vāks'.
Nouns inflected like vakka
aapa,
aatra,
aava,
abbedissa,
abrakadabra,
abskissa,
adventtiaika,
aerodynamiikka,
afta,
agenda,
ahdelauha,
ahkeraliisa,
ahma,
ahminta,
ahnehdinta,
aika,
aina,
aisa,
aita,
aitta, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)