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virsu
virsu
Finnish
Bast shoes on display in a museum in Donetsk, Ukraine
Noun
virsu
- A shoe made of strips of birchbark or bast, worn earlier by the poor in Finland and Russia, one of a pair of lapti.
Declension
| Inflection of virsu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | virsu | virsut | |
| genitive | virsun | virsujen | |
| partitive | virsua | virsuja | |
| illative | virsuun | virsuihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | virsu | virsut | |
| accusative | nom. | virsu | virsut |
| gen. | virsun | ||
| genitive | virsun | virsujen | |
| partitive | virsua | virsuja | |
| inessive | virsussa | virsuissa | |
| elative | virsusta | virsuista | |
| illative | virsuun | virsuihin | |
| adessive | virsulla | virsuilla | |
| ablative | virsulta | virsuilta | |
| allative | virsulle | virsuille | |
| essive | virsuna | virsuina | |
| translative | virsuksi | virsuiksi | |
| instructive | — | virsuin | |
| abessive | virsutta | virsuitta | |
| comitative | — | virsuineen | |