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ajan
ajan
Finnish
Noun
ajan
Postposition
ajan (+ genitive)
- for, during, throughout (a period of time)
- kahden vuoden ajan
- during two years
- Liike oli niitä harvoja, jotka pystyivät olemaan auki sodan ajan.
- The shop was one of the few able to stay open during the war.
- Seuraavien kahden vuoden ajan sinä olet Mongolian lähetystömme päällikkö.
- For the next two years you will be the head of our Mongolian embassy.
- Asuin 1970-luvun (ajan) vanhempieni luona.
- I lived with my parents during the 1970s.
- kahden vuoden ajan
Usage notes
- Ajan indicates that a situation or activity continued or continues during the whole of a specified length of time. To refer to an unspecified period of time or to an event that happened or happens during a specified period but at an unspecified moment, aikana may be used.
- This construction may replaced with the accusative case if the definition of time period is exact in itself.
Verb
ajan
- First-person singular indicative present form of ajaa.
- Minä ajan.
- I drive.
- I'll drive.
- I'm driving.
- Minä ajan.