elää

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[edit] Finnish

(index el)

[edit] Etymology

From the same Proto-Uralic *elä- as Hungarian él.

[edit] Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: e‧lää
  • IPA: [ˈe̞læː(ʔ)]

[edit] Verb

elää

  1. (intransitive) To live, be alive.
    Elän kuin viimeistä päivää. = I live as if this was the last day [of my life].
  2. (intransitive) To live (somewhere).
    Olen elänyt koko ikäni tässä kaupungissa. = I have lived in this town for all my life.

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[edit] Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: e‧lää
  • IPA: ['elæː]

[edit] Verb

elää

  1. Third-person singular indicative present form of elää.