küsima

‘ask’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	ask
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	5,794
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 5,789

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

küsima, küsis, küsimaie, küsümä, küsib, küsse, küsi, küsida, küsümähe, küsisin, küsin, küsisid, küsisi, küsige, küskimaie, küsimata, küsü, küsime, küsüma, küsütelli, küsüs, küsides, küsivad, küsüme, küsigu, kisi, küsüsin, küüsümä, küsiti, küssi, küsümahe, küsikse, küsimä, küsinud, küskemaie, küsiksi, küssü, küsid, küsümaie, küsimahe … and 198 more of 238 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

küsima · 37

1. küsimus(t)e abil midagi teada tahtma
2. ütlema, paluma, taotlema, et midagi antaks v. teha võimaldataks
3. (hrl. elatiiviga:) hoolima

EMS

küsima

küsimust esitama, pärima
tagamõttega pärima; uurima
küsitlema, teadmisi kontrollima
vastus tarbetule küsimusele

(+5)

Idamurre

küsima

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
ask (asked, asks, asking)	8,964	99.1%
unasked	31	0.3%
let	14	0.2%
scratch	14	0.2%
Uses counted	9,044

Example verses

ärga orjalta küsima (AES, MT 3, 10 (32)) read in context
kadri küsib küindelaida (AES, MT 29, 4) read in context
Kadri asks for nail-scraps,
neilt ma küsse nõvvateli (AES, MT 40, 21/2 (26)) read in context
From them I asked, they counseled,
küsüse na sandelt raha (AES, MT 40, 23/4 (30)) read in context
They asked the giver for money,
mine küsi kas pallu raha minu tütar (AES, MT 43, 80/5) read in context
mina vennalta küsima (AES, MT 49, 15/6 (6)) read in context
I ask my brother:
uksekünnis ei küsinud (AES, MT 58, 6/7) read in context
the doorstep did not ask,
ärge mult mune küsige (AES, MT 60, 32/3 (19)) read in context
Don't ask me for eggs;

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
küündima	3,913	323
kündma	1,381	281
kurb	1,365	242
küla	947	301
hakkama	834	263
ema	824	325
luba	796	119
vend	778	312

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
Venna sõjalugu	162
Haned kadunud	108
Sõjalaul	105
Tütarde tapja	103
Müüdud neiu	89
Ema haual	83
Venna otsija	73
Arg kosilane	68

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	443
Kuusalu	243
Haljala	159
Kolga-Jaani	129
Karksi	127
Tõstamaa	103
Paistu	97
Kadrina	96
Viljandi	96
Jõhvi	91

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	4
1850–1859	3
1860–1869	39
1870–1879	319
1880–1889	912
1890–1899	1,132
1900–1909	269
1910–1919	290
1920–1929	364
1930–1939	405
1940–1949	22

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Viljak	115
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	109
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	91
Joosep Hurt	91
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	89

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 4,016)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 10 (32), AES, MT 29, 4, AES, MT 40, 21/2 (26), AES, MT 40, 23/4 (30), AES, MT 43, 80/5, AES, MT 49, 15/6 (6), AES, MT 58, 6/7, AES, MT 60, 32/3 (19), AES, MT 64, 29, AES, MT 117, 70 (34), AES, MT 141, 6/7, AES, MT 141, 18/20, AES, MT 141, 22/23, AES, MT 141, 30/1, AES, MT 163, 3/4 (2), AES, MT 163, 4/7 (3), AES, MT 183, 16, AES, MT 197, 5/8, AES, MT 200, 69/71, AES, MT 247, 54/6, AES, MT 257, 23/5, AES, MT 262, 15, AES, MT 262, 30/1, ARS 1, 421/4 (2), ARS 1, 474/5 (2), ARS 1, 509/12 (1), ARS 1, 651/2 (1), ARS 1, 731/3 (1), ARS 2, 13/27 (1), ARS 2, 28/32 (2a), ARS 2, 72/3 (10), E A 6/7 (8), E A 70 (128), E A 117/9 (2), E A 150 (5), E A 175/8 (3), E A 182/4 (6), E A 189/91 (1), E A 191/3 (2), E A 194 (4), E A 213/4 (10), E A 214/5 (12), E A 216/8 (15), E A 222/1 (16), E A 279/81 (40), E A 291/2 (2), E A 319/20 (7), E A 336 (22), E A 344/6 (7), E A 348/50 (9), E A 365/7 (12), E A 373/4 (2), E A 387, E A 398 (4), E A 406 (14), E A 432/5 (1), E A 445/6 (9), E A 475/6 (1), E A 550 (8), E A 555 (15)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: kysyä

← kündma

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.