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‘don't’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb

English gloss	don't
Part of speech	verb
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	9,425
By corpus	SKVR 5,422, JR 4,003, KR 0, ERAB 0

The counts in this table cover all attested spellings of this lemma, not only the headword form; all are word occurrences, except the KR figure in the By corpus row, which counts poems and is not part of the total.

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English words in the AI translations

How often the AI analysis used each English word when it translated the uses of this word. Forms of one English word are counted together, and one translation can contain several words, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.

English word	Uses	Share
don't	8,453	84.0%
let	58	0.6%
away	35	0.3%
live	27	0.3%
do_not	14	0.1%
Uses counted	10,067

Example verses

älä itke väinämöinen (SKVR I1 80.) read in context
"Don't weep, Väinämöinen,
älä ammu väinämöistä (SKVR I1 101.) read in context
"Don't shoot Väinämöinen,
älä ammu väinämöistä (SKVR I1 122.) read in context
"Do not shoot Väinämöinen,
älä muissa sulhasissa (SKVR I1 209.) read in context
Not among other suitors,
älä muien mustapäien (SKVR I1 210.) read in context
Not to dark ones' will,
älä muissa nuorissoissa (SKVR I1 233.) read in context
Don't among other youths
älä muissa nuorisossa (SKVR I1 241.) read in context
Do not [dwell] among others' youth,
älä syö emäntä rukka (SKVR I1 553.) read in context
"Don't eat, poor mistress,

Companion words

Words that co-occur with this lemma inside the same verse line more often than chance predicts, ranked by log-likelihood (G²) over verse-level co-occurrence in SKVR, KR, JR and ERAB; only pairs seen at least 3 times.

Word	Association (G²)	Co-occurrences
itkeä	2,622	590
mutta	2,071	370
ihminen	1,051	216
kolista	790	102
kynsi	706	160
kylmä	660	166
surra	559	113
syylä	552	73

Song types

Song types of the poems attesting this lemma, as catalogued per poem in the source corpora (ERAB type names are in Estonian, SKVR names in Finnish; JR and KR poems carry no song-type record).

Song type	Poems
Ampiaisen lumous	252
Pakkasen sanat	124
Paise	77
Älä lapsia lakaise, nosta lapset laavitsalle	75
Paista, päivä, paimenille	59
Neuvo neittä nelinurkkaisessa	58
Syylä	57
Tule tuulena tupaan	55

Collection places

Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.

Place	Poems
Narvusi	245
Lempaala	208
Sakkola	132
Metsäpirtti	123
Rautu	115
Uusikirkko Vpl.	92
Vuole	91
Kivennapa	83
Koivisto	73
Tyrvää	62

Attestation over time

Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.

Decade	Poems
1700–1709	13
1750–1759	1
1760–1769	1
1770–1779	2
1780–1789	10
1800–1809	5
1810–1819	17
1820–1829	43
1830–1839	50
1840–1849	170
1850–1859	326
1860–1869	50
1870–1879	44
1880–1889	523
1890–1899	511
1900–1909	420
1910–1919	569
1920–1929	240
1930–1939	1,159
1940–1949	245
1950–1959	302
1960–1969	237
1970–1979	2

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Frans Kärki	226
A. D. Neovius	187
Samuli Paulaharju	149
Kaarle Krohn	141
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori	124

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 4,952)

SKVR: SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 101., SKVR I1 122., SKVR I1 209., SKVR I1 210., SKVR I1 233., SKVR I1 241., SKVR I1 553., SKVR I1 erill. [Kilpalaulanta] 1., SKVR I2 722 a)., SKVR I2 729., SKVR I2 731., SKVR I2 774., SKVR I2 786., SKVR I2 824., SKVR I2 826., SKVR I2 828., SKVR I2 850., SKVR I2 852., SKVR I2 1016., SKVR I2 1017., SKVR I2 1021., SKVR I2 1061., SKVR I2 1096., SKVR I2 1099., SKVR I2 1215., SKVR I2 1247., SKVR I3 1535., SKVR I3 1668., SKVR I3 1684., SKVR I3 1691., SKVR I3 1706., SKVR I3 1723., SKVR I3 2000., SKVR I3 2000 a)., SKVR I4 65., SKVR I4 520., SKVR I4 711., SKVR I4 782., SKVR I4 1310., SKVR I4 1717., SKVR I4 1945 a)., SKVR II 39., SKVR II 90., SKVR II 91 a)., SKVR II 95., SKVR II 96 a).#1), SKVR II 97., SKVR II 105., SKVR II 179., SKVR II 186., SKVR II 201., SKVR II 206 a)., SKVR II 207., SKVR II 209., SKVR II 279., SKVR II 345., SKVR II 479., SKVR II 532., SKVR II 536.

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About this profile

The counts and examples on this page come from the lemmatized text of four Finnic runosong corpora: SKVR, JR, KR and ERAB. The table of English words comes from an AI analysis of the corpus; song types, collection places, collectors and dates follow each poem's own catalogue record.

The table of English words is counted from the translations kept in the AI analysis files, which hold only the most frequent translations of each word or spelling, so rare translations can be missing. Words that carry only grammar (such as the, to or didn’t) are left out, and so are English words used fewer than 5 times or in less than 0.1% of the uses counted. The analysis files can group two closely related words, which then show the same table.

Verses are found by the spellings listed above, so an occasional verse may show a different word spelled the same way.