käima

‘go; walk’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	go; walk
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	19,349
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 19,349

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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Attested wordforms

käisin, käisid, käia, käinud, käis, käi, käivad, käve, käime, käib, käind, käima, käisi, käid, käü, kävvä, käies, käite, käinu, kävve, käige, käigu, käiessagi, käümä, käiä, käävä, käimä, käuma, käüsi, käivä, käiste, käüvä, keisin, käüma, käüs, kaume, käüä, käidi, käise, kävvü … and 302 more of 342 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.

EKSS

käima · 41

1. astudes, kõndides, sammudes liikuma; ant. jooksma
2. kuhugi minema ja sealt tagasi tulema (pole alati seotud kõndimisega, jalgsi astumisega)
3. (hrl. imperatiivis:) minema, kasima
4. (teat. moel riietatud olemise, teat. riietuse kandmise kohta)

(+18)

EMS

käima

(liikumisvõimelisena)
kõndima, astuma, sammuma;
jooksma
tiirutama

(+80)

Idamurre

käima

Sources: EKSS — Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut (CC BY 4.0) · EMS — Eesti murrete sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut · Idamurde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut

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
go (went, gone, goes, going)	14,995	54.0%
walk (walked, walking, walks)	11,470	41.3%
visit (visited)	523	1.9%
move (moved)	209	0.8%
while	120	0.4%
come (came)	76	0.3%
let (let's)	60	0.2%
wander	59	0.2%
herd (herded)	57	0.2%
swing	55	0.2%
Uses counted	27,770

Example verses

lase kiigu käia (AES, MT 3, 2 (3)) read in context
Let the cradle swing,
lase kiigu käia (AES, MT 3, 2 (5)) read in context
Let the swing move
kust on käinud karjad läbi (AES, MT 3, 8 (25)) read in context
lähme lähme käime käime (AES, MT 3, 8 (26)) read in context
Let us go, let us walk,
kui käisid käsud järele (AES, MT 3, 10 (33)) read in context
When suitors pursued you,
kõrtsikohast käib pallu rahvast (AES, MT 3, 11 (35)) read in context
kus käisid sa kus käisid sa mua pojukene (AES, MT 3, 12) read in context
Where were you, where were you, my little son?
mul käisid käsud järele (AES, MT 3, 18) read in context
Orders pursued me relentlessly.

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
kari	4,285	1,060
käsk	2,384	381
ori	2,225	724
mööda	1,934	574
tee	1,766	644
kenasti	1,753	199
kirik	1,737	419
õppima	1,543	278

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
Hollandi sulane	277
Kust laulud saadud	221
Tule mulle	209
Tule mulle!	209
Kust laulud	164
Laulu võim	160
Miks ei mullu tulnud	157
Neiu linn	157

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Setumaa	641
Kuusalu	546
Haljala	442
Kolga-Jaani	411
Viljandi	342
Ambla	329
Paistu	289
Karksi	268
Kadrina	258
Halliste	238

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	14
1840–1849	7
1850–1859	10
1860–1869	90
1870–1879	847
1880–1889	2,522
1890–1899	3,326
1900–1909	806
1910–1919	1,056
1920–1929	1,163
1930–1939	1,332
1940–1949	71

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	426
Karl Viljak	397
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	290
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	209
koguja teadmata	199

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 12,039)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 2 (3), AES, MT 3, 2 (5), AES, MT 3, 8 (25), AES, MT 3, 8 (26), AES, MT 3, 10 (33), AES, MT 3, 11 (35), AES, MT 3, 12, AES, MT 3, 18, AES, MT 3, 22, AES, MT 4, 1, AES, MT 25, 13/6, AES, MT 28, 5/6, AES, MT 34, 4, AES, MT 40, 6/7 (9), AES, MT 40, 10 (14), AES, MT 40, 20 (23), AES, MT 40, 20 (24), AES, MT 40, 25 (33), AES, MT 40, 26 (35), AES, MT 40, 30 (41), AES, MT 43, 54, AES, MT 43, 56/7, AES, MT 43, 75, AES, MT 43, 91/2, AES, MT 45, 5/8, AES, MT 45, 9/10, AES, MT 49, 9/10 (1), AES, MT 49, 15/6 (6), AES, MT 59,17/8, AES, MT 60, 33 (20), AES, MT 64, 24, AES, MT 64, 32/3, AES, MT 70, 26, AES, MT 88, 31/2, AES, MT 88, 35, AES, MT 90, 12/3, AES, MT 93, 9/10, AES, MT 104, Anni 7, AES, MT 117, 51/52 (1), AES, MT 117, 54 (5), AES, MT 117, 61/2 (18), AES, MT 117, 69/70 (33), AES, MT 141, 16/17, AES, MT 141, 27, AES, MT 141, 32/3, AES, MT 152, 3/6, AES, MT 163, 10/12 (6), AES, MT 163, 13/15 (7), AES, MT 171, 1/3, AES, MT 171, 28/9 (2), AES, MT 173, 7, AES, MT 180, 7/8 (b), AES, MT 186, 108, AES, MT 197, 29, AES, MT 200, 59/61, AES, MT 200, 64/5, AES, MT 205, 1/4, AES, MT 205, 6/7, AES MT 210, 3/5, AES MT 210, 9/11

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: käydä

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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.