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olema

Pronunciation: /ˈolemɑ/

“olema” is an Estonian word. Its 10 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to be (indicating that the subject and the complement of the verb form the same thing)
  2. to be (occupy a place)
  3. to be, constitute, make up, form
  4. to have; to own, to possess
  5. to have, to possess (as a feature or capability, as opposed to simple possession; almost always for inanimate subjects)
  6. to have (a sensation)
  7. there be
  8. synonym of olemas olema (“to exist”)
  9. to have (a verb to build active present perfect tense and active past perfect tense, taking active the past participle ending -nud)
  10. to have (a verb to build impersonal simple past tense, impersonal passive present perfect tense and impersonal passive past perfect tense taking the passive past participle, ending -tud)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *oldak, from Proto-Uralic *wole-.

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