selviytyä — meaning in English
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English meaning
- cope verb To deal successfully with a difficult situation.
- fend verb To look after or provide for oneself, without relying on others.
- manage verb To be in charge of running something, such as a business, team, or project.
- survive verb To stay alive, especially after facing danger, illness, or hardship.
Senses
selviytyä is used for these senses in English:
- cope (intransitive) To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.
- fend (intransitive) To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being.
- fend (rare, except as "fend for oneself") To defend, to take care of (typically construed with for); to block or push away (typically construed with off).
- get along (intransitive, idiomatic) To survive; to do well enough.
- get through (informal, transitive) To overcome; to endure.
- make it To succeed in doing something, for example in reaching a place, going somewhere, attending an event, arriving in time for something, adding to one's schedule or itinerary, or in getting where one wants to be in one's life or career, which sometimes means becoming or wanting to become successful (succeed in a big way) or famous.
- manage (ambitransitive) To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.
- survive (intransitive) Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.
cope — full definition
- verb To deal successfully with a difficult situation.
- noun (slang) A coping mechanism, comforting belief, or self-delusion someone relies on to get through a hard situation.
fend — full definition
- verb To look after or provide for oneself, without relying on others.
- verb To ward off or push away, usually with "off."