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Vantaa
Vantaa
English
Proper noun
Vantaa
Translations
city in Finland
Finnish
Etymology
The name was taken in 1972 from river Vantaa which runs through the city. Until then the municipality was known as Helsingin maalaiskunta ("Rural municipality of Helsinki").
Proper noun
Vantaa
Declension
In Vantaa = Vantaalla
| Inflection of Vantaa (Kotus type 17/vapaa, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Vantaa | — | |
| genitive | Vantaan | — | |
| partitive | Vantaata | — | |
| illative | Vantaaseen | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Vantaa | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Vantaa | — |
| gen. | Vantaan | ||
| genitive | Vantaan | — | |
| partitive | Vantaata | — | |
| inessive | Vantaassa | — | |
| elative | Vantaasta | — | |
| illative | Vantaaseen | — | |
| adessive | Vantaalla | — | |
| ablative | Vantaalta | — | |
| allative | Vantaalle | — | |
| essive | Vantaana | — | |
| translative | Vantaaksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | Vantaatta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |