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
- noun Serious pain, suffering, or worry, especially of an urgent kind.
- verb To cause someone anxiety, pain, or worry.
emergency — full definition
- noun A sudden, serious situation that requires immediate action.
- noun The department of a hospital that treats people needing urgent medical care.