gosʹtʹa

Karelian

Regional variants of *gosʹtʹa*
North Karelian (Viena)	kostʹa
South Karelian (Tver)	gosʹtʹa

Borrowed from Russian гость (gostʹ).

gosʹtʹa (genitive gosʹtʹan, partitive gosʹtʹua)

Tver Karelian declension of gosʹtʹa (type 5/koira no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	gosʹtʹa	gosʹtʹat
genitive	gosʹtʹan	gosʹtʹin
partitive	gosʹtʹua	gosʹtʹie
illative	gosʹtʹah	gosʹtʹih
inessive	gosʹtʹašša	gosʹtʹissa
elative	gosʹtʹašta	gosʹtʹista
adessive	gosʹtʹalla	gosʹtʹilla
ablative	gosʹtʹalda	gosʹtʹilda
translative	gosʹtʹakši	gosʹtʹiksi
essive	gosʹtʹana	gosʹtʹina
comitative	gosʹtʹanke	gosʹtʹinke
abessive	gosʹtʹatta	gosʹtʹitta
prolative	gosʹtʹačči	gosʹtʹičči
instructive	—	gosʹtʹin

Possessive forms of gosʹtʹa
1st person	gosʹtʹani
2nd person	gosʹtʹaš
3rd person	gosʹtʹah
^*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

A. V. Punzhina (1994), “gos’t’a”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
Pertti Virtaranta; Raija Koponen (2009), “kostja”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja‎^[1], Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN