kova
‘hard’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish adjective
| English gloss | hard |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | adjective |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 7,476 |
| By corpus | SKVR 4,215, JR 2,661, KR 600 poems, ERAB 0 |
Counts cover all attested spellings of this lemma, not only the headword form; the KR figure counts poems rather than word tokens.
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Attested wordforms
kova, kovan, kovasti, kavon, kovassa, kovoa, kovasta, kovia, moskovan, kovemmin, kovaa, kovempi, kovast, kof, koville, kovaosainen, kovaosaista, koffe, moskovat, kowin … and 625 more of 645 attested forms
English senses in context
How the AI analysis rendered this lemma in English across the corpus (top senses).
| Sense | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| hard | 6,766 |
| harder | 491 |
| harsh | 277 |
| hardest | 184 |
| harshly | 146 |
Example verses
- iski kobrie kokolda (SKVR I1 3.)
- kokon kobrie kolisti (SKVR I1 4.)
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: kõva
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.