Finnish–English dictionary

ei seksikäs

(of research etc) Perceived as not having wide contemporary interest; plodding.

ei seuraa

(logic) Any invalid argument in which the conclusion cannot be logically deduced from the premises.

ei sopusoinnussa

Being at variance or in contradiction to something.

ei sosiaalinen

Not social, not relating to society.

ei tajuta

(transitive) To fail to understand.

ei tehnyt vastarintaa

Willing to comply; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.

ei uskottava

not convincing, plausible or believable

ei uskottavasti

(manner) In an incredible manner; not to be believed.

ei uskovainen

Not practicing; of a person in a particular profession, not engaged in the practice of that profession; of a person born into a particular religion, not abiding by the rituals and mores of that religion.

ei vakuuttava

not convincing, plausible or believable

ei välittää

To deliberately not listen or pay attention to.

ei valvottu

Not supervised; not being constantly observed.

ei vastustajaa

The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team.

ei vastuussa

(now, rare) Not responsible; exempt from legal responsibility, not to be held accountable.

ei yhtään

Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.

ei yksikään

Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.

ei ymmärrettävä

Impossible or very difficult to understand.

ei ymmärtää

(transitive) To fail to understand.

ei-

Not, the negation of the root word (a quality).

ei-ääni

A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition.

ei-juutalainen

Non-Jewish.

ei-kukaan

(uncountable, informal) Nothing, zero.

ei-magneettinen

Not magnetic; not affected by a magnet.

EI-TAI

A binary operator composite of NOT OR; negation of OR function.

ei-toivottu

(often, in the plural) An undesirable person.

ei-toivottu henkilö

A person who is not welcome, especially a diplomat in a foreign country.

ei-triviaali

(mathematics) Not obvious or easy to prove; not self-evident.

ei-uskova

a person who does not believe, especially regarding religion.

ei-välttämätön

Not required; not essential.

eikä

(logic) A binary operator composite of NOT AND; negation of AND function.

eikö niin

Used to check listener engagement and (especially) agreement at the end of an utterance or each segment thereof.

eilen

On the day before today.

eilinen

The day immediately before today; one day ago.

eilispäivä

The day immediately before today; one day ago.

eilispäivänä

On the day before today.

Einstein

Albert Einstein, the world-famous 20th-century theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity.

einsteinium

A transuranic chemical element (symbol Es) with atomic number 99: a soft, silvery, paramagnetic metal.

eipä kestä

A polite way of responding to thanks, by suggesting that the service is too trivial or humble to warrant thanks; you're welcome.

eittää

(transitive) To use a veto against.

eittämätön

Universally agreed upon; not disputed.

eivät

Used to show agreement with a negative question.

ejakulaatio

(specifically) A reflex in human beings and other mammals in response to sexual stimulation involving the forcible ejection from the urethra of, in males, semen; and, in females, vaginal fluid.

ejakulaatti

Fluid or some other substance ejected or suddenly thrown from a duct or other body structure; specifically, semen or vaginal fluid ejected by a human being or other mammal during an ejaculation.

ekaluokka

The first year of grade school.

eklektikko

Someone who selects according to the eclectic method.

eklektinen

Selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles.

ekliptika

(astronomy) The plane in which this great circle lies.

eko-

ecology or the environment (in the ecological sense)

ekologia

(biology) The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.

ekologinen

Relating to ecology, the interrelationships of organisms and their environment.

ekologinen lokero

(ecology) A function within an ecological system to which an organism is especially suited.

ekonomia

(social sciences) The study of resource allocation, distribution and consumption; of capital and investment; and of management of the factors of production.

ekonomisti

An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories.

ekonomisuus

Frugal use of resources.

ekosysteemi

A system formed by an ecological community and its environment that functions as a unit.

ekotoni

A transition area between two adjacent ecological communities (ecosystems).

eksä

(colloquial) A former partner or spouse; an ex-girlfriend, ex-boyfriend, ex-wife, or ex-husband.

eksakti

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.

ekseema

(biology, medicine) A non-contagious acute or chronic inflammation of the skin, characterized by redness, itching, and the outbreak of oozing vesicular lesions which become encrusted and scaly.

eksegeesi

A critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially a religious text.

eksemplaari

An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned; a prototype. [from mid 16th c.]

eksentrikko

One who does not behave like others.

eksentrinen

Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.

eksentrismi

The quality of being eccentric or odd; any eccentric behaviour.

eksentrisyys

The quality of being eccentric or odd; any eccentric behaviour.

ekshibitionismi

The practice or character trait of deliberately drawing attention to oneself.

ekshumaatio

The act of digging up that which has been buried.

eksklusiivinen

(literally) Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.

eksklusiivisuus

The quality of being exclusive.

ekskluusio

The act of excluding or shutting out; removal from consideration or taking part. [from 17th c.]

ekskommunikaatio

The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.

ekskulpaatio

The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime.

ekskursio

A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.

eksodus

A sudden departure of a large number of people.

eksoottinen

Non-native to the ecosystem.

eksoottinen laji

(biology) An organism that is exotic to an environment.

eksorkismi

The ritual act of driving out evil spirits from persons, places or things that are possessed by them.

eksorkisti

A person, especially a priest or priestess, who is a masterful practitioner in purification and exorcism to force out evil spirits and/or demons from a living being.

eksoteerinen

(by extension) Of a person: not part of an enlightened inner circle; not privy to esoteric knowledge.

ekspatriaatti

One who lives outside one's own country, especially temporarily for a profession or education.

ekspatriaatti-

Living outside of one's own country.

ekspertti

(chess) A player ranking just below master.

ekspiraatio

(uncountable) The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth.

eksplementtikulma

(mathematics) An explementary angle.

eksplisiittinen

Very specific, clear, or detailed. [from 1609]

eksplisiittisesti

In an explicit manner.

eksponentiaalisesti

(mathematics, sciences) In an exponential manner.

eksponentti

(mathematics) The number by which a value (called the base) is said to be raised to a power in exponentiation: for example, the 3 in 2^3=8.

eksportti

(uncountable) The act of exporting.

ekspressiivinen

Effectively conveying thought or feeling.

ekstaasi

A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.

ekstensio

(semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.

ekstra

Something extra that is good; an added benefit.

ekstra-

(not comparable) Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.

ekstrapoloida

(transitive, mathematics) To estimate the value of a variable outside a known range from values within that range by assuming that the estimated value follows logically from the known ones

ekstravagantti

Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.

ekstremismi

Extreme ideas or actions, primarily in politics or religion.

ekstremisti

(political) A person who holds extreme views, especially one who advocates such views; a radical or fanatic.

ekstremistinen

Of or relating to extremism.

ekstrovertti

(informal, _, psychology) An extroverted person: one who is outgoing, sociable, and concerned with outer affairs.

ekstrusiivinen

(geology, of igneous rock) Extrusive; having solidified after being poured out as molten lava.

ekstruusio

A manufacturing process where a billet of material is pushed and/or drawn through a die to create a shaped rod, rail or pipe.

eksudaatti

A fluid that has exuded from somewhere; especially one that has exuded from a pore of an animal or plant.

eksyä

(intransitive) To lose one's way.

eksyä (aiheesta)

(intransitive) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.

eksyjä

Someone who goes against the direct or proper course, or from the company to which they belong.

eksyksissä

Not on target; astray; in error; confused; dazed. [from early 19th c.]

eksymä

(contract law) The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility.

eksyminen

(astronomy) A small periodical change of the apparent positions of the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer. [Mid 18th century.]

eksynyt

Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way.

eksyttää

To cause to lose orientation or direction.

ekumeeninen

(ecclesiastical) Pertaining to the universal Church, representing the entire Christian world; interdenominational; sometimes by extension, interreligious. [from 16th c.]

ekvatoriaalinen

(geography) Of, near, or relating to the equator.

ekvivalentti

(mathematics, category theory) Of two categories, (informally) such that one is essentially a relabeling of the other; (formally) related by a pair of functors such the composition of the one with the other is naturally isomorphic to the identity functor.

elää

(intransitive) To be alive; to have life.

elää ja hengittää

To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently.

elää kauemmin

(transitive) To live longer than (someone); to outlive (someone or something); to outlast (something).

elää pitempään

(transitive) To live longer than (someone); to outlive (someone or something); to outlast (something).

elää rinnakkain

(intransitive, stative, of two or more things, people, concepts, etc.) To exist contemporaneously or in the same area.

elää uudelleen

(transitive) To experience (something) again; to live over again. [from 18th c.]

elähdyttää

(transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.

eläimellinen

Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.

eläimet

(uncountable) Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time. [from late 18th c.]

eläimistö

(uncountable) Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time. [from late 18th c.]

eläin

Of or relating to animals.

eläinkoti

A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.

eläinlääkäri

A medical doctor who treats non-human animals.

eläinlääketieteellinen

Of or relating to the medical or surgical treatment of non-human animals, especially domestic and farm animals.

eläinpsykologia

(zoology) The scientific study of animalian behavior, especially that of nonhuman animals.

eläinrasva

Any fat rendered from the tissue of an animal.

eläinrata

(astrology) The twelve equal divisions of the zodiacal region into signs or houses, each named for a prominent constellation in the region.

eläinrata-

(astronomy, astrology) Of or pertaining to the zodiac.

eläintarha

A collection of live wild animals as an exhibition historically associated with the aristocracy and considered a precursor of modern zoos.

eläintarhaeläinten hoitaja

A person employed at a zoo to attend to the animals.

eläintarhan hoitaja

A person employed at a zoo to attend to the animals.

eläinten täyttäminen

The art of stuffing and mounting the skins of dead animals for exhibition in a lifelike state.

eläintenhoitaja

A person employed at a zoo to attend to the animals.

eläintentäyttäjä

One who practices taxidermy, the stuffing of animals.

eläintiede

The part of biology relating to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct.

eläintieteilijä

One who studies zoology.

eläjä

Someone who is alive: one of the living.

eläke

(finance) An annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private pension schemes. [from 16th c.]

eläkeläinen

(chiefly, UK, Canada) Someone who lives on a pension, especially the retirement or old age pension.

eläkeläisyys

The state of having permanently left one's employment, now especially at reaching pensionable age; the portion of one's life after retiring from one's career. [from 17th c.]

eläkepäivät

The state of having permanently left one's employment, now especially at reaching pensionable age; the portion of one's life after retiring from one's career. [from 17th c.]

eläkerahasto

A pool of assets forming an independent legal entity that are bought with the contributions to a pension plan for the exclusive purpose of financing pension plan benefits.

eläkkeellä oleva

Having left employment, especially on reaching pensionable age. [from 16th c.] (of people)

eläkkeelle siirtyminen

The state of having permanently left one's employment, now especially at reaching pensionable age; the portion of one's life after retiring from one's career. [from 17th c.]

eläköityä

(intransitive) To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.

eläköityminen

The state of having permanently left one's employment, now especially at reaching pensionable age; the portion of one's life after retiring from one's career. [from 17th c.]