Finnish–English dictionary

tulkita väärin

(transitive) To interpret erroneously, to understand incorrectly; to misunderstand.

tulkkaaminen

(countable) An act of interpreting or explaining something unclear; a translation; a version.

tulkkaus

(countable) An act of interpreting or explaining something unclear; a translation; a version.

tulkki

A device used to measure dimensions, especially for small or precise measurements.

tulla

(formal) Used with to-infinitives of verbs to express intent, obligation, appropriateness, or relative future occurrence.

tulla epävakaaksi

(intransitive) To become unstable.

tulla esiin

(intransitive) To extend beyond a surface.

tulla hylätyksi

(intransitive, informal, of a cheque/check) To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.

tulla hyväksytyksi

(transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.

tulla ilmi

(intransitive) To become known.

tulla johtopäätökseen

(transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.

tulla julki

(intransitive, of information, facts, content, etc) To become known or apparent; to appear or be found; to come to light.

tulla juovikkaaksi

(intransitive) To have or obtain streaks.

tulla kiertotietä

(intransitive) To make a detour.

tulla kysymykseen

(archaic) Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy to achieve the purpose; availing, effective.

tulla luokitelluksi

(intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.

tulla lusikallinen housuun

(informal, vulgar) To unintentionally defecate due to relaxing the anus to flatulate.

tulla mieheksi ja vaimoksi

(transitive) To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.

tulla mieleen

(idiomatic) By the way; now that I think about it; indicates something brought to mind.

tulla näkyviin

(intransitive) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

tulla pannuksi järjestykseen

(intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.

tulla raskaaksi

(ambitransitive) To have a child; to become pregnant (with).

tulla tajuihinsa

(intransitive, idiomatic) To recover consciousness after fainting etc.

tulla tietoon

(intransitive) To become known; to escape from secrecy. [from 18th c.]

tulla toimeen

Able to get along well.

tulla tulokseen

To think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate.

tulla ulos

(transitive) To cause (something) to come out of a machine.

tulla väliin

(intransitive) To be inserted between parts or things; to come between.

tulla valmista

(ambitransitive) To finish.

tulla voimaan

(intransitive, figuratively) To take effect; to have influence or force; to be relevant.

tulla voimaan uudelleen

(law, chiefly, historical) To give new validity to (a law or legal instrument); to reenact, to revalidate.

tullata

(cricket) The decision of the captain to let the bowling side bat in test cricket to save time without being all out.

tulli

(archaic, uncountable) Toll, tax, or tribute.

tullimaksu

(in the plural) The duties or taxes imposed on imported or exported goods.

tulliselvitys

The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure licence to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.

tullitarkastus

The process of going through customs checks at a border checkpoint.

tulo

Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.

tulo-

Related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.

tulokanava

A sluice or pipe which allows the controlled flow of water from behind a dam, typically routing it to a turbine of a power plant.

tulokas

A newcomer.

tuloksekas

Yielding good or useful results; constructive.

tuloksellinen

Yielding good or useful results; constructive.

tulokset

An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.

tulokseton

Incapable of producing results, useless; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting.

tuloksia tuottava

Having the power to produce a required effect or effects.

tulokulma

(optics, physics) The angle that a straight line, ray of light, etc., meeting a surface, makes with a normal to the surface at the point of meeting.

tulollaan

Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.

tulos

Something viewed as a product of human agency or conception rather than an inherent element.

tulospalkkio

An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder.

tulossa

(figurative) Soon to come; likely to happen; in the foreseeable future; projected to occur; on the horizon; in the wind.

tulossa oleva

About to happen; imminent or impending.

tulostaa

(computing) To send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer, or to send data from one program on the computer to another.

tulostaja

One who makes prints.

tulostaulu

A large board that displays the score in a game or contest.

tuloste

(computing) Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer, or data sent from one program on the computer to another.

tulostin

(printing) The operator of a printing press or the owner of a printing business; (metonymy) any printing business.

tulostinmuste

Powder used in laser printers and photocopiers to form the text and images on the printed paper.

tulot

(now, _, only, _, US) Proceeds; profits from business transactions. [from 15th c.]

tulpata

(transitive) To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.

tulppa

(obsolete, slang) A sharper or pickpocket.

tulta

Command to shoot with firearms.

tulva

(mechanics, chiefly, historical) A type of governor used in single-acting steam engines, where a flow of water through an opening regulates the stroke.

tulvainen

Filled with water from rain or rivers.

tulvaluukku

An adjustable gate or valve used to control the flow of water through a sluice.

tulvapato

An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.

tulvatasanko

(geology) An alluvial flat.

tulvia

(transitive) To flood with water.

tulviminen

An act of flooding; a flood or gush.

tulvittaa

(transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice

tuma

(biology) Pertaining to the nucleus of a cell. [from 19th c.]

tumma

(of a person) Having brown hair.

tummajunkko

Junco hyemalis, a passerine bird in the passerine family Passerellidae.

tumman sinivihreä

Having a bluish-green colour.

tummanpunainen

(This entry is a translation hub.)

tummanruskea

A brown colour, like that of a beaver.

tummansininen

Having the dark blue colour of navy blue.

tummaverikkö

A person, especially female, with brown hair.

tummentaa

(transitive) To make dark or darker in colour.

tummentua

(intransitive) To become dark or darker in colour.

tummentuma

Oxidation or discoloration, especially of a decorative metal exposed to air.

tummua

(intransitive) To oxidize or discolor due to oxidation.

tummuus

(uncountable) The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color.

tumpata

(transitive) To stub out (a cigarette etc).

tumpelo

A fool; a simpleton; a stupid or clumsy person.

tumppi

(US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.

tumpula

One who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity, especially (sport, originally, and, chiefly, golf) , a sport such as golf or tennis.

tunari

A clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler.

tunaroida

(informal, transitive) To ruin, mess up.

tunarointi

State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.

tundra

A flat and treeless Arctic biome.

tungeksia

(transitive) To crowd into or around a place.

tungetella

(intransitive) To become apparent in an unwelcome way, to be forcibly imposed; to jut in, to intrude (on or into). [from 16th c.]

tungetteleva

Tending to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without permission or welcome.

tungettelija

One who interferes, intrudes or gets involved where not welcome, particularly a self-interested intruder.

tungos

Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.

tunika

A garment worn over the torso, with or without sleeves, and of various lengths reaching from the hips to the ankles.

Tunis

Tunis Governorate, one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia, which includes the capital.

Tunisia

The Republic of Tunisia, since 1956.

tunisialainen

Of, from, or pertaining to Tunisia, the Tunisian people or the Tunisian language.

tunkata

(transitive) To physically raise using a jack.

tunkea

To force one's way; to be pushy.

tunkeileva

Too curious; overly interested; nosy.

tunkeilija

One who interferes, intrudes or gets involved where not welcome, particularly a self-interested intruder.

tunkeminen

The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something).

tunkeutua

To attempt to accomplish by indirect means, especially when direct means are proscribed.

tunkeutua läpi

(transitive) To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture

tunkeutuja

Someone who intrudes.

tunkeutuminen

An aggressive movement into somewhere; an invasion in the general sense.

tunkio

(UK, Irish, Commonwealth) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump. [from 19th c.]

tunkkainen

Moldy or musty.

tunkki

A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre. [from 17th c.]

tunnari

A background radio sound track played during a specific announcement or program.

tunne

The state of being affected, especially: a change in, or alteration of, the emotional state of a person or other animal, caused by a subjective affect (a subjective feeling or emotion), which arises in response to a stimulus which may result from either thought or perception.

tunne-

Of or relating to the emotions.

tunneäly

(psychology) The ability, capacity, or skill to perceive, assess, and manage the emotions of oneself, of others, and of groups.

tunnearvo

The personal value of an object, derived from the personal memories associated with it.

tunnekuohu

(psychology, figurative) Emotional overwhelm sometimes leading to a primal state of rage or panic.

tunnekyky

(now, rare, archaic) Excessive emotional awareness; the fact or quality of being overemotional. [from 18th c.]

tunneli

(mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery.

tunnelma

A particular mood or atmosphere of an environment or surrounding influence.

tunnelmallinen

(music) Evoking or creating an atmosphere: atmospheric.

tunneloituminen

(physics) The quantum mechanical passing of a particle through an energy barrier.

tunneperäinen

Derived from emotion rather than logical reason.

tunnepitoinen

Emotional; emotionally charged; affecting.

tunnepohjainen

Determined by strong emotion rather than purely logical reasoning.

tunnettu

Completed; effected; established.

tunnettuus

The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of, especially for something positive.

tunnistaa

To see someone or something clearly or distinctly.

tunnistaa tunnustelemalla

(informal, by extension) to identify something by touch.

tunnistamaton

(biology, now, _, rare) Not described (in the academic literature).

tunnistaminen

(broadly, often) The combination of identifying (which one, which thing) and validating the identity (proving or confirming it); identifying and authenticating viewed as a unitary concept in cognition.

tunnistautua

(transitive) To establish the identity of someone or something.

tunniste

(cryptography) A unique identification for a public key in asymmetric cryptography.

tunnistettava

Capable of being distinguished and named.

tunnistin

A device capable of registering a specific substance or physical phenomenon, and that optionally sounds an alarm or triggers a warning.

tunnistus

The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity).

tunnollinen

Performing with industrious concentration; hard-working and focused.

tunnollisesti

In a diligent manner, with appropriate effort, carefully.

tunnontuska

(now, negative polarity) A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt. [from 17th c.]

tunnonvaiva

A feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning.

tunnoton

(of a body part) Having a numb or prickling sensation accompanied by a degree of unresponsiveness.

tunnottomuus

The condition of being insensitive

tunnukset

Decorations or insignia indicative of an office or membership of an order or society; such as freemasonry.

tunnukseton

Not bearing identification.

tunnus

A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.

tunnuskuva

A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verses, etc. intended as a moral lesson or meditation.

tunnuskuvio

(heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.

tunnuslaatikko

(US) A list of a newspaper or other periodical's main staff, contributing writers, publisher, circulation, advertising rates etc.

tunnuslause

(rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.(heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from a badge or cognizance primarily as it is a personal distinction, and not a badge borne by members of the same house successively.

tunnusliivi

A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.