olema
Pronunciation: /ˈolemɑ/
“olema” is an Estonian word. Its 10 meanings in English:
verb
- to be (indicating that the subject and the complement of the verb form the same thing)
- to be (occupy a place)
- to be, constitute, make up, form
- to have; to own, to possess
- to have, to possess (as a feature or capability, as opposed to simple possession; almost always for inanimate subjects)
- to have (a sensation)
- there be
- synonym of olemas olema (“to exist”)
- to have (a verb to build active present perfect tense and active past perfect tense, taking active the past participle ending -nud)
- 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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