kasvama

‘grow’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	grow
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	10,724
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 10,724

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

kasva, kasvis, kasvi, kasvab, kasvand, kasvid, kasvamaie, kasvas, kasvin, kasnud, kasuda, kasuma, kasunu, kasvan, kasvavad, kasugu, kasus, kasve, kasund, kasvasin, kasvad, kasvsid, kasvagu, kasvavada, kasusin, kasvemaie, kasvamata, kasvada, kasvama, kasun, kasvanessa, kasvanud, kasvasid, kasvamasta, kasumahe, kasunud, kasvanesse, kasvsin, kasusid, kasuvat … and 258 more of 298 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

kasvama · 43

1. eluprotsessi tulemusena mõõtmetelt ja massilt suurenema, välja arenema
2. (ühenduses puude, taimede esinemis- v. levikupaigaga:) esinema, leiduma, olema
3. taimkattega (ka karvadega) tihedalt kattuma, täituma v. ummistuma
4. suurenema, rohkenema, tugevnema

EMS

kasvama

kasvama ja arenema
(taimedest)
(inimestest, loomadest)
omaseks saama, harjumuseks kujunema

(+5)

Idamurre

kasvama

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
grow (grew, grown, grows, growing)	13,682	97.1%
growth	266	1.9%
let	124	0.9%
benefit	73	0.5%
while	47	0.3%
ungrown	29	0.2%
thrive	26	0.2%
raise (raised)	21	0.1%
Uses counted	14,097

Example verses

kased jätan kasvamaie (AES, MT 3, 8 (26)) read in context
Birches I leave to grow,
kask kasvagu kaela peale (AES, MT 3, 10 (31)) read in context
Let a birch grow on her neck,
muru kasvand mulla peale (AES, MT 3, 13) read in context
Grass has grown upon the earth,
ja ei seal ei kasvand vilja vilja (AES, MT 3, 16) read in context
And there grew no grain, no grain
kasva eidele esikust (AES, MT 3, 23) read in context
Grow for Grandma from the porch,
sinna kasvi suurõ saarõ (AES, MT 40, 12/4 (17)) read in context
There grew large wooded islands,
imä pand salve kasuma (AES, MT 40, 16/7 (19)) read in context
Mother placed it in a chest to grow,
sinna kasvi kaokõnõ (AES, MT 40, 31 (42)) read in context
There grew a pine sapling.

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
tamm	3,683	667
muld	3,500	610
muru	3,388	631
peale	2,535	1,142
sinna	1,776	456
jõudma	1,226	297
haud	1,108	282
kaas	1,043	200

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
Ema haual	610
Kosjahobu söötmine	219
Tähemõrsja	219
Suur tamm	210
Salme	206
Isa- ja mehekodus	176
Liiri-lõõri!	141
Kasvatus asjatu	130

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	431
Karksi	295
Kolga-Jaani	294
Kuusalu	289
Haljala	268
Paistu	252
Viljandi	201
Helme	197
Tarvastu	177
Halliste	171

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	2
1840–1849	8
1850–1859	2
1860–1869	48
1870–1879	583
1880–1889	1,910
1890–1899	2,220
1900–1909	449
1910–1919	590
1920–1929	688
1930–1939	843
1940–1949	60

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	231
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	211
Karl Viljak	196
Oskar Philipp Kallas	143
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	132

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 7,867)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 8 (26), AES, MT 3, 10 (31), AES, MT 3, 13, AES, MT 3, 16, AES, MT 3, 23, AES, MT 40, 12/4 (17), AES, MT 40, 16/7 (19), AES, MT 40, 31 (42), AES, MT 43, 61/2, AES, MT 43, 70/1, AES, MT 44, 2, AES, MT 44, 5, AES, MT 54, 1/2 (2), AES, MT 54, 5/8 (8), AES, Mt 64, 26, AES, MT 76, 11/12 (3), AES, MT 76, 28/30 (2), AES, MT 76, 32/3 (4), AES, MT 76, 35/6 (7), AES MT 287, 4/14, AES, MT 102, 10, AES, MT 102, 21 (3), AES, MT 102, 29 (4), AES, MT 102, 35, 36 (2), AES, MT 141, 6/7, AES, MT 141, 22, AES, MT 145, 1/12, AES, MT 163, 10/12 (6), AES, MT 171, 28/9 (2), AES, MT 174, 40, AES, MT 186, 113/5, AES, MT 188, 54/5 (2), AES, MT 200, 59/61, AES, MT 200, 63/4, AES, MT 200, 66, AES, MT 205, 1/4, AES, MT 205, 36, AES MT 208, 18, AES, MT 216, 17, AES, MT 219, 14, AES, MT 230, 1/2, AES, MT 230, 11/2, AES, MT 230, 13/4, AES, MT 230, 15, AES, MT 236, 49, AES, MT 247, 54/6, AES, MT 252, 2, AES, MT 257, 23/5, AES, MT 262, 8, AES, MT 262, 13/4, AES, MT 262, 19, AES, MT 262, 27, AES, MT 266, 6, AES, MT 294, 33 (24), ARS 1, 501/5 (11), ARS 1, 543/4 (1), ARS 1, 633/5 (2), ARS 1, 797/9 (1), ARS 1, 804 (3), ARS 1, 867 (2)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: kasvaa

← kasvaa katsoa →

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.