neljä

From Proto-Finnic *neljä, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *neljä. Cognates include Estonian neli, Northern Sami njeallje, Erzya ниле (nile), Northern Mansi нила (nila) and Hungarian négy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈneljæ/, [ˈne̞ljæ]

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• Rhymes: -eljæ
• Syllabification^(key): nel‧jä
• Hyphenation^(key): nel‧jä

neljä

1. four

• See Appendix:Finnish numbers.
• The instructive plural nelin is almost always used instead of neljin and it is used e.g. in the phrase nelin kontin (“on all fours”) and in the structure nelin verroin + comparative, e.g. nelin verroin parempi (“four times as good”).

Declension goes according to type koira (number 10), except of the two forms, which drop the j for an easier pronunciation (*): first instructive plural form nelin (the koira-type second form is neljin, which is dated) and temporal distributive form nelisin (koira-type form would have been neljisin).

• Kven: nelje, neljä

• nee

• “neljä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

From Proto-Finnic *neljä, from Proto-Uralic *neljä. Cognates include Finnish neljä and Estonian neli.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈneljæ/, [ˈne̞lʲː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈneljæ/, [ˈne̞lʲjæ]
• Rhymes: -elj, -eljæ
• Hyphenation: nel‧jä

neljä

1. four
   • 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa) [Geography: textbook for Ingrian elementary school third grade (first part)], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:

     Mittaisivat mitälee plaanua mööt, reknaisiit ja sanoivat, etti linnaa saa ono neljä kilometraa i yli tunnin, melkeen, möö leenemmä kois.

     They measured something along the map, counted and said, that it's four kilometers to the city and in an hour, approximately, we would be home.

   • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 28:

     Esim.: määrällisiä cislasanoja ollaa: yks, kaks, kolt, neljä, viis.

     E.g.: The cardinal numbers are: one, two, three, four, five.

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “нела”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 703
• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[3], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 92
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 338
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[4], →ISBN, page 18

• IPA^(key): /ˈneljæ/

neljä

1. alternative form of nelje

• Eira Söderholm (2017) Kvensk grammatikk‎^[5], Tromsø: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, →ISBN, page 309