tehdä

Finnish

(index te)

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *teke, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeH₁- (to put, place, do, make).

Finno-Ugric cognates include Estonian tegema, Northern Sámi dahkat, and Hungarian tesz.

Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek τίθημι (tithēmi), Sanskrit दधाति (dádhāti), Old English dōn (English do), Latin faciō (French faire, Spanish hacer), Old Irish dorat (Irish déan), Old Church Slavonic дѣти (děti).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: teh‧dä
  • IPA: /ˈteɦdæ(ʔ)/

Verb

tehdä

  1. (transitive) to do, perform, execute
    Mitä sinä teet?
    What are you doing?
  2. (transitive) to make, manufacture
    Tein äidilleni kakun.
    I made a cake for my mom.
  3. (transitive) to commit, perpetrate, carry out, conduct (to do, as a crime, sin, or fault)
    tehdä itsemurha: to commit suicide
    tehdä rikos: to commit a crime, perpetrate an offense
    tehdä virhe: to commit a mistake, make an error
    tehdä koe, tehdä testi: to carry out, conduct a test
    tehdä huorin: to commit adultery
  4. (transitive) to make, render (somebody: accusative, adjective: translative or somebody: elative, noun: accusative)
    Hän teki minut iloiseksi (with translative adjective describing the end result)
    She made me happy.
    He tekivät minusta presidentin (with an elative noun describing the end result)
    They made me President.
  5. (transitive) to make, cost (said often by the salesperson to the customer)
    Se tekee viisikymmentäyhdeksän euroa.
    That makes fifty-nine euros.

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Usage notes

(To make/render): The structure elative + accusative can sometimes be used also when describing the end result with an adjective, but the structure accusative + translative may very often not sound fluent when describing the end result with a noun. This distinction is very established and to make sure that the language used sounds fluent, it is preferable to stick to it although there is sometimes some fluctuation when describing the result with an adjective.

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