arpajaiset
Finnish
Etymology
Noun
arpajaiset pl
- lottery, draw, raffle
- (law) An activity in which the participants pay a fee and by that obtain a partially or fully random possibility to win a prize of monetary value.
Usage notes
The legal definition is understood broadly and it covers some activities which are not called arpajaiset in common language such as vedonlyönti (“betting”) and rahapelit (“gambling”).
Declension
| Inflection of arpajaiset (Kotus type 38/nainen, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | — | arpajaiset | |
| genitive | — | arpajaisten arpajaisien | |
| partitive | — | arpajaisia | |
| illative | — | arpajaisiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | — | arpajaiset | |
| accusative | nom. | — | arpajaiset |
| gen. | — | ||
| genitive | — | arpajaisten arpajaisien | |
| partitive | — | arpajaisia | |
| inessive | — | arpajaisissa | |
| elative | — | arpajaisista | |
| illative | — | arpajaisiin | |
| adessive | — | arpajaisilla | |
| ablative | — | arpajaisilta | |
| allative | — | arpajaisille | |
| essive | — | arpajaisina | |
| translative | — | arpajaisiksi | |
| instructive | — | arpajaisin | |
| abessive | — | arpajaisitta | |
| comitative | — | arpajaisineen | |
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