Finnish–English dictionary

juoni

Intention or plot.

juonia

To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.

juonikas

Intending to entrap; alluring but harmful.

juonikkuus

(uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.

juonipaljastus

A document, review or comment that discloses the ending or some key surprise or twist in a story, or the internal rules controlling the behaviour of a video game, etc. [from 1970s]

juonitella

(intransitive) to act in concert with; to conspire

juonittelija

A person who plots.

juonittelu

Chiefly preceded by in: collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason. [from early 19th c.]

juonne

A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.

juontaa

To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman.

juontaja

(dated, radio) A person who conducts a radio program of recorded music combined with talk, news, commercials, weather, etc.

juontaminen

(forestry) The logging operation for pulling cut trees out of a forest.

juonto

(forestry) The logging operation for pulling cut trees out of a forest.

juontotraktori

(engineering) a vehicle for pulling trees out of a forest.

juopotella

(transitive, intransitive, often with on) To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol or media consumption.

juopotteleva

(pejorative) Given to habitual excessive use of alcohol.

juopottelu

A short period of excessive consumption, especially of food, alcohol, narcotics, etc.

juoppo

One who abuses alcohol.

juoppolalli

Drunkard.

juopporatti

Drunkard.

juoppous

(disease) Addiction to alcohol.

juopumus

A drunken state.

juopunut

Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.

juoru

(informal) intimate gossip

juoruilija

(countable) Someone who likes to talk about other people's private or personal business.

juoruilla

(intransitive) To talk idly.

juoruilu

(uncountable) Idle talk; gossip; (countable) an instance of such talk or gossip.

juorukello

(countable) Someone who likes to talk about other people's private or personal business.

juoruta

(intransitive) To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a manner that spreads the information.

juosta

(intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.

juosta karkuun

(intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.

juoste

(anatomy) A series of connected body organs, such as the digestive tract.

juosten kustu

(slang, somewhat, vulgar) Poorly or incompetently done; desultory.

juostenkusta

(transitive, or, intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully.

juotava

(of water) Safe to drink.

juotikas

An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of subclass Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.

juotosapuaine

A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.

juottaa

To make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it; to saturate, to soak; also (archaic) , to make (someone or something) completely wet by immersing in water or some other liquid; to soak, to steep.

juottaa lyijyllä

(dated) To seal something with lead.

juottaminen

A method of joining two metallic surfaces by melting an alloy between them.

juova

A cloud formed by a dispersed substance fanning out or spreading.

juovittaa

(transitive) To create streaks upon.

juovitus

A pattern of band-like markings.

juovuksissa

Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.

juovuttaa

(dated) To make (someone) feel flushed and hot through drinking alcoholic beverages; also, to make (someone) slightly drunk or tipsy.

jupakka

(figuratively, by extension) Any minor dispute.

jupina

A muttered complaint or protest; the expression of dissatisfaction in a low muttering voice; any expression of complaint or discontent.

Jupiterin temppeli

The building in Washington, D.C., in which both houses of the Congress of the United States meet.

juppi

(informal, sometimes derogatory, dated) A young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle.

jurakausi

(geology, paleontology) The period from 201.3±0.2 to 145 million years ago, after the Triassic and before the Cretaceous; the geologic systems of this period.

juridinen

Pertaining to the law or rule of law, legal; judicial, related to the administration of justice (as to jurisprudence, or to the function of a judge or court).

juridisesti

From a legal perspective.

juristi

(law) An expert of law or someone who researches jurisprudence.

jurnuttaa

(intransitive) To express ill humor or offence by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn.

juro

Surly; churlish; gruff; rough.

jurottaa

(intransitive) To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk.

jurri

A drunken state.

jurrissa

(UK, Canada, slang) very drunk; inebriated.

jurtta

A circular tent or yurt used by various nomadic peoples such as the Kalmyks and Kyrgyz.

jury

(law) A group of individuals chosen from the general population to hear and decide a case in a court of law.

Jussi

A en given name derived from a pet form of the name John. Occasionally a diminutive of other given names such as Jackson, Jacob, Jacqueline or Jonathan.

Jussila

An English and Welsh surname originating as a patronymic derived from the given name John.

Jussilainen

An English and Welsh surname originating as a patronymic derived from the given name John.

Justin

A en given name.

Justus

A en given name.

jutella

To be engaged in informal conversation.

juttelu

(countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.

juttu

An account which supports an argument, but which is not supported by scientific or statistical analysis.

jutunkertoja

A person who relates stories through one medium or another to an audience.

jutustelu

Gossip.

juu

(informal) Yes.

Juudas

A traitor; a person not to be trusted.

Juudea

Roman rendition of Judah. Used after the fall of the Davidic dynasty and through the period as part of the Roman Empire.

juupas

Used to indicate disagreement or dissent in reply to a negative statement.

juurellinen

(mathematics, graph theory, of a tree or graph) Having a root.

juuri

(countable, often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.

juuri äsken

Moments ago, only very recently.

juuri ja juuri

(not comparable, degree) Almost not at all.

juuri näin

Thus; as written; used to indicate, for example, that text is being quoted as it is from the source.

juuri niin

(by extension) A response to a totally accurate statement.

juuri sopiva

(used attributively) A happy medium or optimal point between two extremes.

juuria

(transitive) To pull up by the roots.

juurihakemisto

(computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.

juurikansio

(computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.

juurikas

Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.

juurikaskirva

A small black insect of species Aphis fabae, with a broad, soft body, a member of the order Hemiptera that is a major pest of sugar beet, bean and celery crops.

juurikerros

(uncountable) The stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.

juuriminen

The act of plucking up by the roots; an uprooting or rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.

juurinta

The act of plucking up by the roots; an uprooting or rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.

juurisävel

(music) The first note or tone of a musical scale.

juurisolmu

(graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.

juuriverso

A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.

juurruttaa

(transitive) To fix firmly or set securely or deeply.

juurtua

(idiomatic) To establish oneself in a place; to become settled.

juurtunut

Fixed, established

juusto

(photography) Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.

juustohampurilainen

A hamburger containing cheese (usually one or more slices of processed cheese).

juustoinen

Of or relating to cheese.

juustokakku

(countable, and, uncountable, obsolete) A pie made of cream, eggs and milk (somewhat resembling the modern American chess cake).

juustokumina

The flowering plant Cuminum cyminum, in the family Apiaceae.

juustomainen

Resembling or containing cheese.

juustomassa

The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc.

juustouma

The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc.

juutalainen

A member or descendant of the Jewish people.

juutalainen seurakunta

(countable, Judaism) A congregation of Jews or Samaritans for the purpose of worship or religious study.

juutalaiset

(historical) The quarter of a town or city inhabited either partially or exclusively by Jews; historically, its main buildings were the synagogue, the ritual bath or mikve, the kosher-oriented butchery and bakery, etc. [from 17th c.]

juutalaisnainen

(dated, or, humorous) A female Jew. [14th c.]

juutalaissaksa

A West Germanic, or more specifically High German, language that developed from Middle High German dialects, with an admixture of vocabulary from multiple source languages including Hebrew-Aramaic, Romance, Slavic, English, etc., and mostly written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe.

juutalaisuus

An Abrahamic religion tracing its origin to the Hebrew people of the ancient Middle East, as documented in their religious writings, the Tanakh.

juutalaisvaino

hence, the state-sponsored mass murder of a particular group of people in society. [from 20th c.]

juutalaisvastaisuus

(narrower sense) Prejudice, discrimination, hostility or political or religious opposition directed against ethnic or religious Jews or against Judaism; antijudaism; judeophobia.

Juutinrauma

A strait in Northern Europe, which separates Denmark and Sweden.

juuttua

To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.

juuttua jäihin

(nautical) Of a ship, to get trapped by ice.

juuttunut

(of words or a way of speaking) Obscene, vulgar or abusive.

juveli

A precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone.

jyhkeä

Large in size, quantity, or value.

jykevä

Evincing strength and health; strong; (often, especially) both large and healthy#Adjective.

jykevästi

In a solid or firm manner.

jylhä

Of a place or thing: bleak, desolate.

jylinä

A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.

jylistä

To make a lot of noise.

Jyllanti

A cultural region and peninsula in northwestern Europe, consisting of the mainland part of Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein, which is part of Germany.

jyly

A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.

jymähdys

The sound of a dull impact.

jymähtää

(intransitive) To make the sound of a dull impact.

jymäyttää

To deceive; to hoodwink.

jyminä

The bubbling or seething of a torrent.

jymistä

(intransitive) To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.

jymy

A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.

jymy-

(by extension) Emphatic, noteworthy.

jymy-yllätys

(figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning.

jymymenestys

(informal) Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb.

jynssääjä

One who scrubs.

jynssätä

(transitive) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening

jynssäys

(idiomatic) Effort or hard work, especially physical work involving repeated motion of the forearm, such as scrubbing.

jyrä

A heavy cylinder used to break clods.

jyrääminen

The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.

jyrähdellä

To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.

jyrähdys

The sound of an explosion, typically seen in comic strips or heard in a light-hearted conversation.

jyrähtää

(intransitive) To make a loud noise.

jyrähtely

The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.

jyrätä

(transitive) To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.

jyrinä

A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.

jyrisevä

Very loud; that sounds like thunder; thundersome. Also in metaphorical expressions, signifying fury.

jyristä

To sound in a deep tone.

jyristellä

(intransitive) To move while making a rumbling noise.

jyrkänne

A high, steep bank, for example by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.

jyrkästi

In a definite manner; in a manner showing complete certainty.

jyrkästi ylös ja alas kulkeva lentorata

(aviation) A flight path consisting of a series of steep ascents and descents, generally flown as a stunt.