Finnish–English dictionary

tehdä koe

(transitive, obsolete) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.

tehdä koloja

(transitive) To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.

tehdä kompromissi

To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.

tehdä kowtow

(historical) To kneel and bow low enough to touch one’s forehead to the ground.

tehdä kuningattareksi

(transitive) To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.

tehdä kuolemattomaksi

To give unending life to, to make immortal.

tehdä kuori

(transitive) To cover with a crust.

tehdä kuperkeikka

(British, West Midlands) To do a forward roll.

tehdä kykeneväksi

To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.

tehdä lähetystyötä

(ambitransitive, broadly) To advertise one’s religious beliefs; to convert (someone) to one’s own faith or religious movement or encourage them to do so.

tehdä laittomaksi

(transitive) To make (something) a crime; to make illegal under criminal law; to ban.

tehdä lautta

(transitive) To make into a raft.

tehdä lentopudotus

To deliver goods, equipment, or personnel by dropping them from an aircraft in flight.

tehdä lommo

(intransitive) To create a dimple in one's face by smiling.

tehdä loppuun

(ambitransitive) To finish; to make done; to reach the end.

tehdä lopulta

(copulative) To come to a final place, condition, or situation, sometimes unplanned or unexpected; to turn out.

tehdä maali

To earn points in a game.

tehdä maksulliseksi

(transitive) To impose a fee for the use of.

tehdä massa

(ergative) To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to assemble.

tehdä matti

(transitive, chess) To put the king of an opponent into checkmate.

tehdä merkki

(transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.

tehdä mieli

To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.

tehdä murheelliseksi

(transitive) To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.

tehdä myrkyttömäksi

(transitive) To remove foreign and harmful substances from something.

tehdä myrskyiseksi

To make (someone or something) stormy; to agitate (someone or something) violently.

tehdä naaraskierre

To cut an internal screw thread in (a hole); also, to cut (an internal screw thread) in a hole, or to create an internally threaded hole in (something).

tehdä näkyväksi

(chiefly, medicine) To make (a hidden or unclear body part, process, or object) visible by optical methods (such as endoscopy, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, or X-rays), or other techniques.

tehdä naurunalaiseksi

(transitive) To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of.

tehdä nuhjuiseksi

(transitive) To make (something) shabby (adjective sense 1); to shabbify.

tehdä nuhruiseksi

(transitive) To make (something) shabby (adjective sense 1); to shabbify.

tehdä oharit

(transitive, idiomatic) (stand someone up) To avoid a prearranged meeting, especially a date, with (a person) without prior notification; to jilt or shirk.

tehdä olo epämukavaksi

To make (someone) uncomfortable; to discomfort, to disturb, to trouble.

tehdä onnettomaksi

To cause strain or anxiety to someone.

tehdä oppisopimus

To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress

tehdä pää

(transitive, of hardware) To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.

tehdä pakkolasku mereen

(ambitransitive, aviation) To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.

tehdä palvelus

To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward.

tehdä parannus

(theology, intransitive) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love.

tehdä pätkätöitä

(intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.

tehdä perinnöttömäksi

(transitive) To exclude from inheritance; to disown.

tehdä pilaa

(transitive, colloquial) To mock or make a fool of (someone) in a playful way.

tehdä piruetti

(intransitive) To perform a pirouette; to whirl on the toes, like a dancer.

tehdä piste

To earn points in a game.

tehdä poikkeus

(transitive) To exclude; to specify as being an exception.

tehdä pudotuspotkumaali

(rugby) To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.

tehdä puolisokeaksi

(transitive, literary, often, passive) To cause (someone) to have impaired vision or become partially blind.

tehdä pusuhuulet

(intransitive) To push out one's lips.

tehdä pyhiinvaellus

To go on a pilgrimage.

tehdä rakettihyökkäys

To attack something with rockets.

tehdä raukeaksi

(figurative) To make (someone or something) dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.

tehdä reikä

(transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).

tehdä ristinmerkki

(reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself.

tehdä ruokaa

(ambitransitive) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.

tehdä ruumiinavaus

(transitive) To perform an autopsy on.

tehdä rystylyönti

To execute a backhand stroke or throw.

tehdä saari

(transitive) To surround with water; make into an island.

tehdä säleikkö

To construct or provide with slats.

tehdä samalla tavalla

(transitive) To produce something equal to.

tehdä samanlainen

(transitive) To produce something equal to.

tehdä selvää

(transitive) To move from one place to another, especially to take away.

tehdä siirtokopio

(archaic) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; usually with up.

tehdä sisäkierre

To cut an internal screw thread in (a hole); also, to cut (an internal screw thread) in a hole, or to create an internally threaded hole in (something).

tehdä sivutyötä

To work on the side (at a secondary job), often in the evening or during the night.

tehdä sopimus

(ambitransitive) To bind by mutual agreement.

tehdä strategia

To formulate a strategy.

tehdä suotuisa

(archaic, rare) To cause (something) to be auspicious or good-omened; also, to declare or make (something) holy; to consecrate, to sanctify.

tehdä syntiä

(intransitive, theology) To commit a sin.

tehdä syvennys

To make a recess (noun sense 1 and sense 1.1) in (something).

tehdä taittoviiva

(transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.

tehdä tarjous

(intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.

tehdä tärskyt

(intransitive) To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.

tehdä tasapalstaksi

(transitive, typography) To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.

tehdä taskuvarkaus

(transitive) To pick pockets; to steal.

tehdä täydelliseksi

(transitive) To make perfect; to improve or hone.

tehdä tilaa

(idiom) To rearrange or organize existing people, objects, furniture, belongings, etc., to create space for new objects.

tehdä tilaus

(transitive) To place an order for (often a piece of art).

tehdä todeksi

To cause (something) to seem real; to make realistic; specifically, to present (something) clearly to the mind, a person, (archaic) oneself, etc., so that it seems real.

tehdä toimintakyvyttömäksi

(ergative) to make something inactive or no longer effective

tehdä treffit

(intransitive) To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.

tehdä tyhjäksi

(transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.

tehdä tylsäksi

(transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.

tehdä työkseen

(transitive, chiefly, in questions) To have as one's job.

tehdä työtä

(intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.

tehdä ulkokierre

To cut an internal screw thread in (a hole); also, to cut (an internal screw thread) in a hole, or to create an internally threaded hole in (something).

tehdä uneliaaksi

To make (someone or something) heavy with drowsiness or sleepiness.

tehdä ura

(joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.

tehdä uroskierre

To cut an internal screw thread in (a hole); also, to cut (an internal screw thread) in a hole, or to create an internally threaded hole in (something).

tehdä uudella tavalla

(intransitive) To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.

tehdä uudelleen

(transitive) To do repeatedly; to do again.

tehdä uudestaan

To do again.

tehdä uutta

(intransitive) To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.

tehdä vaarattomaksi

(transitive) To remove the fuse from (e.g. a bomb).

tehdä väärin

To treat unjustly; to injure or harm; to do wrong by.

tehdä vääryyttä

To treat unjustly; to injure or harm; to do wrong by.

tehdä vaihtokauppa

(transitive) To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade

tehdä valehyökkäys

(rare) To direct a feint or mock attack against (someone).

tehdä valitus

(intransitive) To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.

tehdä valkoisemmaksi

(media) To make over (someone of colour) so that they appear more white, for example, by applying lightening makeup to their skin or digitally manipulating an image of them.

tehdä vanhanaikaiseksi

(transitive) To cause to become old or obsolete.

tehdä vapaaehtoisesti

(ambitransitive) To do or offer to do something voluntarily.

tehdä varaus

(transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.

tehdä vastakäännös

(nautical) To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other.

tehdä venda

(nautical) To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other.

tehdä vilunkia

(ambitransitive) To fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled manner.

tehdä vinoksi

(transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.

tehdä virhe

To err, to be wrong. (This entry is a translation hub.)

tehdä voltti

To perform a somersault.

tehdä yhteenveto

To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.

tehdä yhteistyötä

To work together with others to achieve a common goal.

tehdä ylilyönti

To react too much or too intensely.

tehdä yllätyshyökkäys

(obsolete) To attack suddenly; to alarm.

tehdas

A building or other place where manufacturing takes place. [from 17th c.]

tehdaslaitos

A building or other place where manufacturing takes place. [from 17th c.]

tehdasrakennus

The building housing such a grinding apparatus; also, any similar building that houses a similarly material activity (such as weaving, fulling, dying, etc.); the place of business comprising such a building and its outbuildings and grounds.

tehdastyöläinen

(dated, 19th-mid 20th century) An employee in industry.

Teheran

The capital city of Iran, the seat of Tehran County's Central District and the capital of Tehran Province.

tehkää tietä

(to a crowd) Make way! Clear a path!

teho

(medical) Initialism of intensive care unit.

tehoava

Having the power to produce a required effect or effects.

tehokas

Having the power to produce a required effect or effects.

tehokkaasti

In an efficient or effective manner; with powerful effect.

tehokkuus

A degree of ability to produce a desired effect; effectiveness.

tehollinen

Efficient, serviceable, or operative, available for useful work.

tehopakkaus

(idiomatic) A person who is especially active, ambitious, hard-working, or high-achieving.

tehosekoitin

A machine with sharp rotating blades in a bowl, for mashing, crushing, or liquefying food ingredients.

tehostaa

(transitive) To bring out distinctly; to make more noticeable or prominent; to emphasize. [from 1865]

tehostaminen

(economics) The reorganization of a company or organization in order to improve its efficiency through the reallocation of resources and changes in its workforce.

tehostettu

(bodybuilding, euphemism) Having suffered the use of anabolic steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs.

tehota

(intransitive) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (medicine) to take appropriate effect on the human system.

tehoton

Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious

tehtävä

An assigned task.

tehtävälista

A list of tasks arising during a meeting that are put aside to be dealt with later. [from late 20th c.]

tehtävän edellyttämä

Followed by on or upon: imposed on one as an obligation, especially due to one's office or position.

tehtävänjako

A meeting to share a concise summary of a current situation, especially in close preparation for an operation or undertaking.

tehtävien asioiden lista

(by extension) A list of things to accomplish before a certain deadline or in a certain time period.

tehtävien eriyttäminen

(security, software, uncountable) Initialism of static separation of duty.

tehtävissä

Able to be done in practice.

tehty uudelleen

(of a topic, attributive, postpositive) Redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.

teidän

Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).

teidän ...nne

Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).

teidät

(object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.) [from 13th c.]

Teija

A en given name.

teilata

(transitive) To fasten (a criminal etc.) to a wheel and break his limbs or beat him to death.

teini-ikä

The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old; the teenage years.

teini-ikäinen

Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.

teipata

(transitive) To hide or cover up, as if with plaster; to cover thickly.

teippaaja

Someone who works with tape or tapes.

teippi

(US, medical) Surgical tape, such tape made specifically for medical purposes.

teisti

A rock gunnel, Pholis gunnellus, an eel-like fish found in the intertidal and subtidal zones of the North Atlantic.

teistinen

Of or relating to theism.