nägema

‘see’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	see
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	10,935
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 10,935

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

näha, näinud, näe, nägi, nägid, nätä, nägema, näind, nähtud, nännu, näed, nägemata, näeb, näen, nähikse, nähja, nännü, nähä, nähes, näeme, näevad, näete, nähti, näiet, nägemä, nägeme, näive, näeve, nääb, nägite, näeks, näge, näivä, näes, nägis, nähakse, näied, näees, nägime, nähku … and 198 more of 238 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

nägema

1. silmadega, silmade vahendusel, nägemisaistingu(te) kaudu tajuma (valgust, värvust, esemete kuju, mõõtmeid ja asukohta ruumis)
2. aru saama, mõistma, tõdema
3. tajuma, tunnetama; (ette) aimama
4. kogema, tunda saama

(+4)

EMS

nägema

silmadega, nägemisaistingutega tajuma; (nägemise kaudu) teada saama, millegi üle otsustada võima
(tegelike nägemisaistinguteta)
märkama, tähele panema
külastama

(+7)

Idamurre

nägema

ennustama

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
see (saw, seen, seeing, sees)	17,835	94.2%
show (showed)	310	1.6%
look	191	1.0%
unseen	177	0.9%
face	127	0.7%
behold	79	0.4%
visible	46	0.2%
seem (seemed)	32	0.2%
Uses counted	18,931

Example verses

tuleb meil imet nägema (AES, MT 3, 11 (38)) read in context
Coming to see wonders for us,
oleksin uneski näinud (AES, MT 3, 15) read in context
I would have seen even in a dream,
sõrmust ei näe (AES, MT 28, 5/6) read in context
(will) not see the ring.
kas nägid mede obosi (AES, MT 28, 12/3) read in context
Did you see our horse?
joodikul saab nälga näha (AES, MT 36, 3/5) read in context
At the drunkard's, hunger is seen,
ku saassi viil nätä neio elo (AES, MT 40, 6 (8)) read in context
When I still glimpsed the maiden's life,
päiv näge pallo vaiva (AES, MT 40, 16/7 (19)) read in context
joodikul saab nälga näha (AES, MT 43, 87) read in context
A drunkard who lets hunger be seen.

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
vaev	5,316	890
neiu	3,991	1,235
nägu	2,855	680
kas	2,752	801
nälg	2,480	351
uni	2,129	533
vend	1,743	753
nädal	1,279	214

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
Imed	133
Venna otsija	123
Ema haual	109
Kosjahobu söötmine	107
Oleks see mees minu!	101
Laulu võim	97
Kust laulud saadud	94
Joodikust mees	82

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	336
Paistu	217
Karksi	208
Kuusalu	199
Kolga-Jaani	189
Haljala	183
Tõstamaa	174
Viljandi	156
Tarvastu	148
Halliste	137

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1800–1809	2
1820–1829	19
1830–1839	2
1840–1849	9
1850–1859	11
1860–1869	51
1870–1879	431
1880–1889	1,493
1890–1899	1,821
1900–1909	502
1910–1919	455
1920–1929	649
1930–1939	872
1940–1949	59
1950–1959	1

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	178
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	165
Karl Viljak	141
Oskar Philipp Kallas	117
koguja teadmata	113

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 6,827)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 11 (38), AES, MT 3, 15, AES, MT 28, 5/6, AES, MT 28, 12/3, AES, MT 36, 3/5, AES, MT 40, 6 (8), AES, MT 40, 16/7 (19), AES, MT 43, 87, AES, MT 44, 2/3, AES, MT 54, 4 (6), AES, MT 64, 18, AES, MT 66, 8/10, AES, MT 70, 24, AES, MT 75, 5, AES, MT 75, 32, AES, MT 76, 33/4 (5), AES, MT 88, 43, AES, MT 102, 11, AES, MT 117, 69/70 (33), AES, MT 141, 3, AES, MT 141, 31/2, AES, MT 152, 3/6, AES, MT 154, 7/8, AES, MT 171, 1/3, AES, MT 174, 28/9, AES, MT 200, 64/5, AES, MT 200, 67/8, AES, MT 204, 58, AES, MT 205, 6/7, AES MT 208, 18, AES MT 208, 19, AES MT 210, 3/5, AES, MT 216, 26, AES, MT 219, 4, AES, MT 230, 6/7, AES, MT 230, 19, AES, MT 236, 29/30, AES, MT 236, 40, AES, MT 236, 55/6, AES, MT 259, 1/6, AES, MT 261, 33/4, AES, MT 266, 9/11, ARS 1, 509/12 (1), ARS 1, 532/3 (1), ARS 1, 660 (1), ARS 1, 709/10 (5), ARS 1, 803 (1), ARS 1, 851/7 (1), ARS 1, 910/13 (1), ARS 2, 39/46 (6), ARS 2, 97/9 (22), ARS 2, 340 (107), E A 4 (3), E A 11 (17), E A 19 (1), E A 21/2 (5), E A 34/5 (55, 56), E A 55 (96), E A 59 (106), E A 62/3 (113)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: nähdä

← nutma nähdä →

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.