onnistua — meaning in English
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English meaning
- avail verb To make use of an opportunity or resource, usually for one's own benefit.
- manage verb To be in charge of running something, such as a business, team, or project.
- Pan noun A wide, shallow metal container used for cooking food over heat.
- perform verb To carry out an action or task.
- succeed verb To achieve a desired goal or outcome.
Senses
onnistua is used for these senses in English:
- avail (intransitive) To be of use or advantage; to answer or serve the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object.
- make shift (dated, transitive) To contrive; to invent a way of surmounting a difficulty.
- pan (intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
- perform (intransitive) To exhibit an expected pattern of behavior; to function; to work.
- pull off (transitive, idiomatic) To achieve, accomplish, succeed at (something difficult).
- succeed (intransitive) To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; (often with to).
avail — full definition
- verb To make use of an opportunity or resource, usually for one's own benefit.
- noun Use or benefit, especially in the phrase "to no avail," meaning without success.
manage — full definition
- verb To be in charge of running something, such as a business, team, or project.
- verb To succeed in doing something, especially something difficult.
- verb To handle or cope with a situation, resource, or problem.