Dictionaries › Finnish

tehdä

Pronunciation: /ˈtehdæˣ/

“tehdä” is a Finnish word. Its 9 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to do, perform, execute, carry out
  2. to make, manufacture
  3. to make, render, turn
  4. to commit, perpetrate, carry out, conduct (to do, as a crime, sin, or fault)
  5. to make, cost (said often by the salesperson to the customer)
  6. to do a, pull a (copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned)
  7. to be in the process of
  8. to feel
  9. to have, bear (give birth to children)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tektäk (compare Estonian tegema, Veps tehta), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *teke- (compare Northern Sami dahkat, Erzya теемс (tejems), Hungarian tesz; see the Proto-Uralic entry for more).

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “tehdä” there

More Finnish words

About this dictionary

The Finnish dictionary on Glottosphere has 164,019 entries with a page. Browse the Finnish dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.