Kemi
English
editEtymology
editProper noun
editKemi
- A town in northern Finland by the Bothnian Bay, renowned for the icebreaker Sampo, the world's only icebreaker operating tourist cruises.
- A river in northern Finland.
Translations
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Anagrams
editFinnish
editEtymology
editFrom an archaic Finnish term kemi (“dry, poor meadow; quite barren land with dry and relatively thin soil”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editKemi
- Kemi (a town and municipality of Finland)
- a Finnish surname
Declension
editThe internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Kemi" is Kemissä.
Inflection of Kemi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Kemi | Kemit | |
genitive | Kemin | Kemien | |
partitive | Kemiä | Kemejä | |
illative | Kemiin | Kemeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Kemi | Kemit | |
accusative | nom. | Kemi | Kemit |
gen. | Kemin | ||
genitive | Kemin | Kemien | |
partitive | Kemiä | Kemejä | |
inessive | Kemissä | Kemeissä | |
elative | Kemistä | Kemeistä | |
illative | Kemiin | Kemeihin | |
adessive | Kemillä | Kemeillä | |
ablative | Kemiltä | Kemeiltä | |
allative | Kemille | Kemeille | |
essive | Keminä | Kemeinä | |
translative | Kemiksi | Kemeiksi | |
abessive | Kemittä | Kemeittä | |
instructive | — | Kemein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
editcompounds
Descendants
editStatistics
edit- Kemi is the 2682nd (tied with 10 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 296 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Anagrams
editJapanese
editRomanization
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- English terms borrowed from Finnish
- English terms derived from Finnish
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Rivers in Finland
- en:Places in Finland
- en:Cities in Finland
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/emi
- Rhymes:Finnish/emi/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- fi:Towns in Finland
- fi:Municipalities of Finland
- fi:Places in Finland
- Finnish surnames
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- Japanese non-lemma forms
- Japanese romanizations