Naudoilla

Naudoilla is the plural adessive form of the Finnish noun nauta, meaning cattle. It is used to indicate location on or at cattle, or in contexts associated with cattle as a group.

Morphology and formation: The base noun is nauta. In the plural nominative it becomes naudat. To form the plural adessive, the suffix -lla/-illä is added to the plural stem, yielding naudoilla. The singular adessive form is naudalla, and other common plural and corresponding forms include naudoille (plural allative) and naudalle (singular allative).

Meaning and usage: In agricultural and veterinary texts, naudoilla functions to specify a location or relation involving cattle as a group rather than to a single animal. It appears in sentences describing where animals are located, where actions pertain to cattle, or in statistical descriptions of cattle populations. Because it is a case form, its exact sense—on, at, or with cattle—depends on the surrounding context and the governing verb or preposition.

Related forms and notes: Finnish uses several cases to express spatial and relational meaning, with the adessive (on/at/with) and allative (onto/to) being common in rural and livestock terminology. The word nauta and its inflected forms appear frequently in farming, animal husbandry, and related discourse. See also Finnish grammar, noun cases, and the noun nauta.

See also: Finnish grammar; noun cases; adessive case; nauta.