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hapanhai
hapanhai
Finnish
Noun
hapanhai
- A foul-smelling Icelandic food made of Greenland shark or basking shark by fermenting and drying. As it is barely known outside Nordic countries, most languages do not have a word for it. In English it might be called fermented shark, or by the Icelandic term kæstur hákarl (“fermented shark”) or just hákarl (“shark, Greenland shark”).
Declension
| Inflection of hapanhai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | hapanhai | hapanhait | |
| genitive | hapanhain | hapanhaiden hapanhaitten |
|
| partitive | hapanhaita | hapanhaita | |
| illative | hapanhaihin | hapanhaihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | hapanhai | hapanhait | |
| accusative | nom. | hapanhai | hapanhait |
| gen. | hapanhain | ||
| genitive | hapanhain | hapanhaiden hapanhaitten |
|
| partitive | hapanhaita | hapanhaita | |
| inessive | hapanhaissa | hapanhaissa | |
| elative | hapanhaista | hapanhaista | |
| illative | hapanhaihin | hapanhaihin | |
| adessive | hapanhailla | hapanhailla | |
| ablative | hapanhailta | hapanhailta | |
| allative | hapanhaille | hapanhaille | |
| essive | hapanhaina | hapanhaina | |
| translative | hapanhaiksi | hapanhaiksi | |
| instructive | — | hapanhain | |
| abessive | hapanhaitta | hapanhaitta | |
| comitative | — | hapanhaineen | |