saada

Finnish

pronunciation
Definitions
  • (transitive) to get, receive
  • (transitive) to afford; usually in passive to give forth, yield as natural result
  • (transitive) to deserve
  • (transitive) may, to be allowed, to be permitted
  • (transitive) to make to cause the direct object to be the subject of a verb
  • (transitive) to get, make something done
  • (transitive) to get, manage to do
  • (colloquial) to get laid (If the partner is mentioned, the partner is in the ablative case (equivalent to "from"))

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *saadak derived from Proto-Uralic *saxe-.

Origin

Proto-Uralic

*saxe-

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