käydä

‘go; walk’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb

English gloss	go; walk
Part of speech	verb
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	18,066
By corpus	SKVR 10,700, JR 7,366, KR 715 poems, 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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Attested wordforms

käy, kävin, kävi, käin, käivät, käyä, käyvät, käypi, käynyt, käyvä, käit, käyn, käymään, käyt, kävit, käydä, käyvän, käytyäni, käyessäni, käymää, käymähän, käymättä, kävisin, käyne, käviä, käytii, käyköön, käyessäsi, käykää, kävivät, kävisi, kävitkö, käyny, käyp, käytiin, käyvvä, käymästä, käyös, käypä, käyessä … and 815 more of 855 attested forms

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, going, goes, gone)	13,997	76.9%
walk (walked, walking, walks)	1,353	7.4%
visit (visited, visiting, visits)	866	4.8%
while	594	3.3%
come (came, comes, coming)	540	3.0%
let (let's)	205	1.1%
become (becomes, became, becoming)	150	0.8%
attend (attended, attending)	132	0.7%
move (moving, moves, moved)	90	0.5%
happen (happened, happening, happens)	70	0.4%
Uses counted	18,209

Example verses

ei ilo ilolla käunut (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
hyvän tien käytyäsi (SKVR I1 9.) read in context
With good road behind,
ei ilo iloksi käy (SKVR I1 14.) read in context
But joy brought no joy,
ei ilo iloksi käynyt (SKVR I1 15.) read in context
"Joy did not become joy,"
käsin käypi laineheisiin (SKVR I1 16.) read in context
With hands into the waves.
ei käy soitti soitannaksi (SKVR I1 17.) read in context
käsi verkolla käviä (SKVR I1 30.) read in context
Hand quick with net,
se kävi ulos pihalla (SKVR I1 36.) read in context
Came to the yard,

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
kerta	3,100	711
käsi	2,664	1,110
kaupunki	1,994	374
kosia	1,974	332
tie	1,968	729
pipi	1,889	199
hovi	1,680	251
kylä	1,678	571

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
Ison kotona ja toiselassa	146
Nurmen neito	139
Kanteleen soitto	131
Laivaretki	128
Rutsa	123
Kanteleen synty	120
Karhua vastaan	116
Verensulku	109

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	763
Lempaala	501
Soikkola	382
Sakkola	363
Vuokkiniemi	350
Vuole	349
Suistamo	285
Ilomantsi	229
Kaprio	220
Rautu	213

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1650–1659	2
1670–1679	1
1690–1699	12
1700–1709	26
1730–1739	3
1750–1759	8
1760–1769	10
1770–1779	8
1780–1789	45
1790–1799	1
1800–1809	9
1810–1819	103
1820–1829	193
1830–1839	602
1840–1849	1,218
1850–1859	1,261
1860–1869	145
1870–1879	303
1880–1889	1,683
1890–1899	1,403
1900–1909	978
1910–1919	779
1920–1929	298
1930–1939	1,935
1940–1949	316
1950–1959	386
1960–1969	289

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	1,101
Volmari Porkka	544
D. E. D. Europaeus	450
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori	385
Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari	372

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 12,045)

SKVR: SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 9., SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 16., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 36., SKVR I1 38., SKVR I1 42., SKVR I1 49., SKVR I1 51., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 63 c)., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 72., SKVR I1 77 a)., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 83 b)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 93., SKVR I1 101., SKVR I1 103., SKVR I1 108., SKVR I1 117., SKVR I1 117 c)., SKVR I1 134., SKVR I1 148., SKVR I1 155., SKVR I1 159., SKVR I1 167., SKVR I1 170., SKVR I1 207., SKVR I1 219., SKVR I1 237., SKVR I1 238., SKVR I1 246., SKVR I1 249., SKVR I1 253., SKVR I1 259., SKVR I1 261 a)., SKVR I1 284., SKVR I1 291., SKVR I1 295., SKVR I1 298., SKVR I1 298 a)., SKVR I1 299., SKVR I1 315., SKVR I1 317., SKVR I1 318., SKVR I1 322., SKVR I1 331., SKVR I1 332., SKVR I1 357., SKVR I1 358., SKVR I1 362 a)., SKVR I1 369.

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: käima

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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.