ei
‘not’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish verb
| English gloss | not |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | verb |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 223,526 |
| By corpus | SKVR 81,635, JR 55,521, KR 3,532 poems, ERAB 85,692 |
Counts cover all attested spellings of this lemma, not only the headword form; the KR figure counts poems rather than word tokens.
Full dictionary entry for ei · Search ei in the corpus
Attested wordforms
en, eikä, et, älä, es, enkä, ep, etkä, tei, ett, ej, eik, ii, nie, eivät, elkää, eläkä, ellös, älkää, vet … and 1,081 more of 1,101 attested forms
English senses in context
How the AI analysis rendered this lemma in English across the corpus (top senses).
| Sense | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| don't | 1,789 |
| ei | 577 |
| indeed | 567 |
| didn't | 542 |
| doesn't | 321 |
Example verses
- ei se itku naisen itku (SKVR I1 1.)
- ei ole itku naizen itku (SKVR I1 2.)
- ei anna orjale (AES, MT 3, 3 (7))
- ei mina ketra ei mina ketra (AES, MT 3, 3 (8))
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: eit
Counts aggregate every sense and homonym of the written form shown above, as attested across the SKVR, KR, JR and ERAB corpora; the dictionary entry separates senses in detail.