English dictionary, thesaurus, translations & etymology
FreeDict.com

vaiva — meaning in English

Finnish → English · translate English → Finnish instead

English meaning

  • affection noun A feeling of fondness, warmth, or love toward someone.
  • ail verb To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)
  • ailment noun An illness, especially a minor or ongoing one.
  • bother verb To annoy or disturb someone, or to cause them trouble.
  • complaint noun A statement expressing dissatisfaction or a problem.
  • effort noun Physical or mental energy put into doing something.
  • frustration noun A feeling of annoyance or distress caused by being unable to do or achieve something.
  • hardship noun A period of severe difficulty, suffering, or lack; hard times.
  • inconvenience noun A problem or difficulty that causes trouble or discomfort.
  • toil noun Hard, exhausting work.
  • trouble noun A difficult, worrying, or dangerous situation or problem.

Senses

vaiva is used for these senses in English:

  • affection (medicine, archaic) A disease; a morbid symptom; a malady.
  • ail (obsolete) An ailment; trouble; illness.
  • ailment Something which ails one; a disease; sickness.
  • bother Trouble, inconvenience.
  • complaint A bodily disorder or disease; the symptom of such a disorder.
  • effort The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
  • frustration A thing that frustrates.
  • inconvenience Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.

ail — full definition

  1. verb To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)
  2. verb To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.

Related Finnish words