käydä

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[edit] Finnish

(index kä)

[edit] Etymology

Cognates include Estonian käima.

[edit] Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: käy‧dä
  • IPA: /ˈkæydæˣ/

[edit] Verb

käydä

  1. (intransitive, of a clock) to go
  2. (intransitive, of time) to go by
  3. (intransitive, + inessive or adessive) to visit, go to (and return), attend (a place)
    Kävin eilen Madridissa.
    I visited Madrid yesterday.
    Milloin tulet käymään luonamme?
    When will you visit us?
    käydä kirkossa, sunnuntaijumalanpalveluksessa
    to attend church, at the Sundays service.
    Tänään meidän pitää käydä kaupassa.
    We must go to the grocery store today.
    Odota hetki, käyn vessassa.
    Wait a moment while I go to toilet.
  4. (intransitive, + adessive) to go do
    Mennään käymään kahvilla.
    Let's go to coffee.
    Osaako pikku-Pekka käydä itse kakalla?
    Is little Pekka able to go poo by himself?
  5. (transitive, + partitive) to study (at)
    käydä koulua: to go to school
    käydä lukiota: to study at the Finnish academic upper secondary school
    käydä ammattikoulua: to study at the Finnish vocational upper secondary school
  6. (intransitive, monopersonal, inessive or adessive + 3rd-pers. sg. + an adverb) to happen, go (with the subject "it")
    Miten siinä kävi?
    How did it go for you?
  7. (genitive + 3rd-pers. sg. + an adverb) to happen (to somebody)
    Minun kävi huonosti.
    Bad things happened to me.
  8. (an adjective in partitive singular, or "mitä" in a question + 3rd-pers. sg. + allative) to happen (to something)
    Mitä sinun jaloillesi on käynyt?
    What has happened to your feet?
  9. (intransitive, + allative) to please, suit, make content, be okay (with)
  10. (intransitive, + elative) to pass (for)
    Tämä varmaan käy ruoasta.
    This will probably pass for food.
  11. (intransitive) to run, operate, work
    Moottori käy
    The motor is running.
  12. (intransitive, + translative) to get, grow, become
    Vaikeudet kävivät hänelle liian suuriksi.
    The difficulties got too big for her.
  13. (intransitive, chemistry) to ferment, become fermented, yeast
  14. (intransitive, obsolete) to step, tread, pace, stride
  15. (transitive) Used in very many collocations with nouns and with more or less idiomatic value, translated often into "engage in", "have", "do", "transact" , "pursue", "keep up", "maintain" etc.
    käydä kauppaa: to transact, do business
    käydä keskustelua: to have a conversation
    käydä neuvotteluja: to have a conversation
    käydä vuoropuhelua: to engage in, maintain a dialogue

[edit] Conjugation

[edit] Usage notes

  • (to step, tread, pace, stride): The older meaning "to step" has originally produced the frequentative derivative kävellä with the meaning "to walk" (the literal translation of which would be approximately "to step around"). However, the meaning "to step" has stood the tests of time e.g. in the interjection Käy/Käykää peremmälle! ("Come on in!"), which is an invitation to a guest, standing at the door, to "step further in".
  • Using käydä instead of mennä (to go) implies that the subject will return afterwards.
  • (in collocations) Pitää is quite synonymous with käydä, although pitää has a nuance that the subject is not so active a part in the activity and he or she is more of a supervisor rather than an equal participant in the activity.

[edit] Synonyms

  • (to please, suit, make content, be okay): kelvata, sopia
  • (to step, tread, pace, stride): astua
  • (to engage in, pursue, have): pitää

[edit] Derived terms