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hätä — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • distress noun Serious pain, suffering, or worry, especially of an urgent kind.
  • emergency noun A sudden, serious situation that requires immediate action.
  • hurry verb To move or act with speed, or to make someone or something move faster.
  • matter noun Physical substance in general — anything that has mass and takes up space.
  • tweak verb To make a small adjustment to something in order to improve it.

Senses

hätä is used for these senses in English:

  • distress Serious danger.
  • emergency (sometimes, attributive) A situation which poses an immediate risk and which requires urgent attention.
  • hurry Urgency.
  • matter (philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.
  • tweak Trouble; distress; tweag.

distress — full definition

  1. noun Serious pain, suffering, or worry, especially of an urgent kind.
  2. verb To cause someone anxiety, pain, or worry.

emergency — full definition

  1. noun A sudden, serious situation that requires immediate action.
  2. noun The department of a hospital that treats people needing urgent medical care.

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