parempi
‘better’ · runosong lemma · Finnish adjective
| English gloss | better |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | adjective |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 4,537 |
| By corpus | SKVR 2,667, JR 1,869, KR 488 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
parempi, paremp, paremmat, paremman, paremmaksi, parembi, paremmille, paremmaks, paremmi, paremmanki, parempia, paremmalle, parempaa, paree, paremmankin, pareman, parempana, parempata, paremma, paremin, parempiani, parempatani, paremmilla, paremboa, parempiaki, paremmaaks, parempijani, pareet, parei, paremmankii, paremmaxi, paremmistana, parempani, parempataini, paremmalla, paremmast, paremmasta, paremmista, parembana, paremmaisen … and 171 more of 211 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 |
|---|---|---|
| better (better's) | 5,403 | 99.4% |
| even | 55 | 1.0% |
| best | 8 | 0.1% |
| parempi | 8 | 0.1% |
| Uses counted | 5,434 |
Example verses
- il olis ilmalla parembi (SKVR I1 7.) read in context
The world would be better, - parempi on omalla maalla (SKVR I1 15.) read in context
Better on one's own land - paremp ois omalla moalla (SKVR I1 38 a).) read in context
Better on my own soil - ta tä paremmat (SKVR I1 40.) read in context
Better than yours, - ilo ilmalla parempi (SKVR I1 47.) read in context
Joy in the air is better, - rauta paijasa parempi (SKVR I1 63 a).) read in context
The iron shirt is better. - rauta paijasa parempi (SKVR I1 63 b).) read in context
Iron in the shirt is better. - minun on miekkani parempi (SKVR I1 72.) read in context
"My sword is better,
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 |
|---|---|---|
| vielä | 800 | 209 |
| kumpi | 788 | 125 |
| laulaja | 707 | 109 |
| kuollut | 553 | 83 |
| muinainen | 491 | 63 |
| sana | 392 | 131 |
| ostaa | 391 | 80 |
| onni | 391 | 85 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Käärmeen sanat | 97 |
| Lemminkäisen virsi | 86 |
| Laulajan lopetussanoja | 77 |
| Verensulku | 65 |
| Kun ois onni ostannassa | 64 |
| Kilpalaulanta | 61 |
| Parempi on omalla maalla ropehesta vettä juoda | 61 |
| Iivana Kojosenpoika | 53 |
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 | 287 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 175 |
| Suistamo | 151 |
| Soikkola | 125 |
| Lempaala | 123 |
| Vuole | 90 |
| Ilomantsi | 86 |
| Sakkola | 80 |
| Kaprio | 58 |
| Rautu | 58 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1560–1569 | 1 |
| 1690–1699 | 4 |
| 1700–1709 | 14 |
| 1740–1749 | 1 |
| 1750–1759 | 3 |
| 1760–1769 | 1 |
| 1770–1779 | 4 |
| 1780–1789 | 14 |
| 1790–1799 | 1 |
| 1800–1809 | 3 |
| 1810–1819 | 33 |
| 1820–1829 | 56 |
| 1830–1839 | 248 |
| 1840–1849 | 605 |
| 1850–1859 | 343 |
| 1860–1869 | 41 |
| 1870–1879 | 138 |
| 1880–1889 | 479 |
| 1890–1899 | 409 |
| 1900–1909 | 272 |
| 1910–1919 | 195 |
| 1920–1929 | 69 |
| 1930–1939 | 467 |
| 1940–1949 | 115 |
| 1950–1959 | 95 |
| 1960–1969 | 74 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 583 |
| Volmari Porkka | 179 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 137 |
| Jaako Länkelä | 112 |
| A. D. Neovius | 104 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,701)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 7., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 38 a)., SKVR I1 40., SKVR I1 47., SKVR I1 63 a)., SKVR I1 63 b)., SKVR I1 72., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 108., SKVR I1 115., SKVR I1 136., SKVR I1 141., SKVR I1 145., SKVR I1 146., SKVR I1 147., SKVR I1 153., SKVR I1 156., SKVR I1 156 a)., SKVR I1 156 b)., SKVR I1 157., SKVR I1 161., SKVR I1 162., SKVR I1 163., SKVR I1 163 a)., SKVR I1 164., SKVR I1 165., SKVR I1 169., SKVR I1 172., SKVR I1 178., SKVR I1 179., SKVR I1 179 a)., SKVR I1 182., SKVR I1 182 a)., SKVR I1 184 a)., SKVR I1 185., SKVR I1 185 a)., SKVR I1 186., SKVR I1 187., SKVR I1 189., SKVR I1 191., SKVR I1 193., SKVR I1 194., SKVR I1 195., SKVR I1 200., SKVR I1 201., SKVR I1 203., SKVR I1 229., SKVR I1 233., SKVR I1 235., SKVR I1 322., SKVR I1 369., SKVR I1 434., SKVR I1 435., SKVR I1 436., SKVR I1 439., SKVR I1 455., SKVR I1 468.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: parem
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.