työ

Finnish

(index ty)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: tyø
  • Hyphenation: työ

Etymology 1

From earlier *tewe. Cognate of Estonian and Votic töö and Livonian tie.

Noun

työ

  1. work (labour, employment, occupation, job)
  2. work (effort expended on a particular task)
  3. work (physics: mechanics and thermodynamics)
  4. work (artistic or intellectual production)
  5. work (place of work)
  6. job
Declension
Synonyms
  • (job) duuni (slang, colloquial)
  • (artistic or intellectual production) teos
  • (place of work) työpaikka; duuni (slang, colloquial)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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Pronoun

työ

  1. (personal, dialectal) you (plural; in archaic English: ye).
Synonyms
  • te (standard Finnish)

Anagrams

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