imettää

imettää

MEANING:

Verb: to breastfeed.

DERIVED FROM:

Imettää is derived from the verb imeä ‎(“to suck”).

EXTRA CREDIT:

Imetys is a noun that means ”breastfeeding.”

huuhtelu

huuhtelu

MEANING:

Noun: flush, rinse (the act of rinsing)

EXTRA CREDIT:

Huuhdella is a verb that means ”to flush,” ”to rinse” or ”to wash.”

tenava

tenava

MEANING:

Noun: (colloquial) kid, child.

Tenava appears in our example in the nominative plural Tenavat, which is also the Finnish name of the American comic strip Peanuts by Charles M Schulz.

EXTRA CREDIT:

Let’s translate the whole book title, Tauko paikalla, Peppermintu Pipsa or something like ”Rest area, Peppermint Patty.”

satula

satula

MEANING:

Noun: saddle

EXTRA CREDIT:

Satuloida means to saddle (to put a saddle on an animal).

rukous

rukous

MEANING:

Noun: a prayer, the act of praying.

EXTRA CREDIT:

Rukoilla is a verb that means ”to pray.”

nimetön

nimetön

MEANING:

As a noun: ring finger.

As an adjective: nameless, untitled.

DERIVED FROM:

Nimetön comes from nimi (”name”) + –tön (a suffix indicting a lack of something).

koukku

koukku

MEANING:

Noun: hook (rod bent into a curved shape). Also refers to a fishing hook, and the boxing punch known in English as a hook.

Pictured is Kapteeni Koukku, or Captain Hook, from the Disney classic Peter Pan.

EXTRA CREDIT:

As an idiomatic expression, used in inessive, elative and illative similarly to English hooked , koukku can be used to mean ‎“unable to resist or cease doing”: Olen koukussa Conan O’Brienin ohjelmaan.

Koukku is also slang for the police.