neljä

== Finnish == === Etymology === From Proto-Finnic *neljä (compare Estonian neli), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *neljä (compare Northern Sami njeallje, Erzya ниле (nile), Northern Mansi нила (nila), Hungarian négy). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈneljæ/, [ˈne̞ljæ] Rhymes: -eljæ Syllabification(key): nel‧jä Hyphenation(key): nel‧jä === Numeral === neljä four ==== Usage notes ==== See Appendix:Finnish numbers. The instructive plural nelin is almost always used instead of neljin and it is used e.g. in the phrase nelin kontin (“on all fours”) and in the structure nelin verroin + comparative, e.g. nelin verroin parempi (“four times as good”). ==== Declension ==== Declension goes according to type koira (10), except of the two forms, which drop the j for an easier pronunciation (*): the instructive plural form nelin (the regular form is neljin, which is also used, but less common) and temporal distributive form nelisin (the regular form would have been neljisin). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Kven: nelje, neljä ==== See also ==== nee === Further reading === “neljä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023 == Ingrian == === Etymology === From Proto-Finnic *neljä, from Proto-Uralic *neljä. Cognates include Finnish neljä and Estonian neli. === Pronunciation === (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈneljæ/, [ˈne̞lʲː] (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈneljæ/, [ˈne̞lʲjæ] Rhymes: -elj, -eljæ Hyphenation: nel‧jä === Numeral === neljä four ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === Fedor Tumansky (1790), “нела”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 703 V. I. Junus (1936), Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎[3], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 92 Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 338 Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014), Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎[4], →ISBN, page 18 == Kven == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈneljæ/ === Numeral === neljä alternative form of nelje === References === Eira Söderholm (2017), Kvensk grammatikk‎[5], Tromsø: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, →ISBN, page 309