kuulla
‘hear’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb
| English gloss | hear |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | verb |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 9,484 |
| By corpus | SKVR 4,953, JR 4,531, KR 399 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
kuulin, kuulla, kuulet, kuules, kuullut, kuultu, kuulee, kuulemaa, kuulit, kuulkaa, kuult, kuuleppas, kuulomaha, kuullu, kuulisin, kuullakseni, kuullaksena, kuullet, kuullen, kuulisi, kuulepas, kuulivat, kuullaksee, kuultuansa, kuulkaat, kuulkoon, kuullun, kuuliit, kuultua, kuull, kuuleman, kuulkoa, kuullutkaan, kuullakseen, kuultuaan, kuulesta, kuulluun, kuulimpa, kuullaksein, kuultuani … and 234 more of 274 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 |
|---|---|---|
| hear (heard, hearing, hears) | 10,283 | 89.8% |
| listen (listening) | 1,118 | 9.8% |
| unheard | 22 | 0.2% |
| moon | 14 | 0.1% |
| let | 13 | 0.1% |
| Uses counted | 11,449 |
Example verses
- jog ei tullut kuulomaha (SKVR I1 2.) read in context
Who didn't come to hear - läksi iändä kuulomaha (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
Went to listen himself - ei on kuullut ei totellut (SKVR I1 7.) read in context
He neither heeded nor obeyed, - kuk ei tullut kuuleman (SKVR I1 30.) read in context
Who didn't come to hear, - sit oli kumma kuulliella (SKVR I1 30 a).) read in context
Strange it was to hear - ei kuullu niien sanaa (SKVR I1 49.) read in context
He heeded not their words. - kuulin kummat näin imehet (SKVR I1 64.) read in context
I heard marvels, saw wonders - soitantoa on kuulomaha (SKVR I1 78.) read in context
"Listened to the music."
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 |
|---|---|---|
| kello | 9,880 | 1,402 |
| lyödä | 5,788 | 927 |
| siellä | 3,606 | 796 |
| kostma | 1,957 | 442 |
| kumma | 1,855 | 284 |
| ääni | 1,735 | 275 |
| puuttua | 1,554 | 270 |
| karja | 994 | 210 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Karhua vastaan | 189 |
| Hämeen ihmeet | 112 |
| Kanteleen soitto | 87 |
| Hevonen kadonnut veljeltä | 79 |
| Kanteleen synty | 78 |
| Muut kuuli kirkon kellon | 64 |
| Kuulin siellä kellon lyövän | 59 |
| Äidin kuolo | 58 |
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 | 309 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 184 |
| Soikkola | 148 |
| Lempaala | 109 |
| Alatornio | 90 |
| Uhtua | 85 |
| Suistamo | 82 |
| Vuole | 80 |
| Sakkola | 79 |
| Kemi | 79 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1650–1659 | 1 |
| 1690–1699 | 9 |
| 1700–1709 | 4 |
| 1750–1759 | 6 |
| 1760–1769 | 5 |
| 1770–1779 | 6 |
| 1780–1789 | 6 |
| 1790–1799 | 1 |
| 1800–1809 | 2 |
| 1810–1819 | 17 |
| 1820–1829 | 79 |
| 1830–1839 | 279 |
| 1840–1849 | 351 |
| 1850–1859 | 353 |
| 1860–1869 | 54 |
| 1870–1879 | 159 |
| 1880–1889 | 501 |
| 1890–1899 | 448 |
| 1900–1909 | 380 |
| 1910–1919 | 538 |
| 1920–1929 | 122 |
| 1930–1939 | 1,008 |
| 1940–1949 | 117 |
| 1950–1959 | 209 |
| 1960–1969 | 160 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 423 |
| Hämeenlinnan alakansakouluseminaari | 296 |
| Perä-Pohjolan ja Lapin Kotiseutuyhdistys | 239 |
| Volmari Porkka | 187 |
| A. A. Borenius | 111 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 4,823)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 2., SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 7., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 30 a)., SKVR I1 49., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 78., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 84 b)., SKVR I1 90., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 97., SKVR I1 108., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 123., SKVR I1 145., SKVR I1 185 a)., SKVR I1 208., SKVR I1 252., SKVR I1 273., SKVR I1 304., SKVR I1 359., SKVR I1 362., SKVR I1 365., SKVR I1 366., SKVR I1 392., SKVR I1 426., SKVR I1 442., SKVR I1 448., SKVR I1 474., SKVR I1 491., SKVR I1 574 a)., SKVR I1 576., SKVR I1 583., SKVR I1 589., SKVR I1 591., SKVR I1 598., SKVR I1 598 a)., SKVR I1 603., SKVR I1 607., SKVR I1 608., SKVR I1 609., SKVR I1 611., SKVR I1 618., SKVR I1 620., SKVR I1 622 a)., SKVR I1 624., SKVR I1 635., SKVR I1 639., SKVR I1 641., SKVR I1 641 a)., SKVR I1 643., SKVR I1 645 a)., SKVR I1 649., SKVR I1 665., SKVR I1 667., SKVR I1 668., SKVR I1 670.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: kuulma
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.