paras
‘best’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish adjective
| English gloss | best |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | adjective |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 8,138 |
| By corpus | SKVR 3,144, JR 2,226, KR 358 poems, ERAB 2,410 |
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
para, parasta, parahan, parahin, parahalla, paraja, parassa, parahasta, parahana, paraan, parraan, paran, paraasta, parast, parajaste, parraalla, parat, paraalla, paraana, parasna … and 700 more of 720 attested forms
English senses in context
How the AI analysis rendered this lemma in English across the corpus (top senses).
| Sense | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| best | 6,956 |
| suitable | 1,301 |
| proper | 697 |
| good | 215 |
| fitting | 146 |
Example verses
- pardasuunu pauhuonda (SKVR I1 18.)
- takoja palan parahan (SKVR I1 21.)
- suula pand parhadõ (AES, MT 44, 5)
- paraligu palgimõtsa (AES, MT 117, 54/5 (6))
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: paraja
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.