pole

‘is not’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	is not
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	11,611
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 11,611

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

pole, põle

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

pole

ei ole

EMS

pole

Idamurre

pole

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
not	15,833	92.6%
be (is, am)	10,479	61.3%
apron (apron's)	80	0.5%
Uses counted	17,097

Example verses

neid põle teinud meie neiud (AES, MT 3, 5 (12)) read in context
These were not made by our maidens,
sul põle kääs reisikeppi (AES, MT 3, 5 (13)) read in context
You've no walking-stick in hand,
kui põle isa iessa (AES, MT 3, 8/9 (27)) read in context
When father's not in the house,
ma põle päris pulmaline (AES, MT 3, 12) read in context
I am not a true wedding guest,
vällas põle kua ni pime (AES, MT 25, 13/6) read in context
kui ta põle odril oitu (AES, MT 43, 48/50) read in context
Since it’s not fed on oats,
ku põle laes laastukesi katri katri (AES, MT 43, 61/2) read in context
If there's no kindling in the ceiling, Katri, Katri
üks ep pole ühtigi (AES, MT 59, 9) read in context
One is not even one.

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
ega	3,553	793
peerg	1,679	192
töö	1,185	305
tegema	992	572
lagi	769	168
ilm	753	159
pind	716	124
hääl	700	201

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
Lauliku sõim	209
Mardilaul	204
Laulu võim	201
Halb laulik	179
Kust laulud saadud	176
Kust laulud	132
Öösel üksi	115
Arg kosilane	104

Collection places

Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.

Place	Poems
Tõstamaa	254
Kolga-Jaani	237
Ambla	205
Kuusalu	195
Pärnu-Jaagupi	193
Haljala	186
Viljandi	182
Muhu	180
Vigala	173
Pöide	172

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	6
1830–1839	1
1840–1849	5
1850–1859	6
1860–1869	8
1870–1879	422
1880–1889	1,506
1890–1899	1,838
1900–1909	433
1910–1919	595
1920–1929	651
1930–1939	873
1940–1949	40

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	268
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	221
Karl Viljak	205
koguja teadmata	144
Oskar Philipp Kallas	144

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 6,891)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 5 (12), AES, MT 3, 5 (13), AES, MT 3, 8/9 (27), AES, MT 3, 12, AES, MT 25, 13/6, AES, MT 43, 48/50, AES, MT 43, 61/2, AES, MT 59, 9, AES, MT 60, 33/5 (21), AES, MT 65, 11, AES, MT 66, 8/8, AES, MT 70, 35, AES, MT 76, 15 (7), AES, MT 76, 16/7 (9), AES, MT 76, 17/9 (10), AES, MT 76, 28/30 (2), AES, MT 76, 34/5 (6), AES, MT 84, 3/7, AES MT 287, 4/14, AES, MT 104, Kurgvel, AES, MT 141, 18, AES, MT 163, 13/15 (7), AES, MT 163, 15/17 (8), AES, MT 171, 1/3, AES, MT 174, 37/8, AES, MT 174, 44, AES, MT 204, 56/7, AES MT 208, 21/3, AES, MT 219, 19, AES, MT 266, 9/11, AES, MT 275, 1, ARS 1, 797/9 (1), ARS 1, 808 (3), ARS 1, 849 (1), ARS 1, 868 (7), E A 4 (3), E A 13 (22), E A 30 (11), E A 34/5 (55, 56), E A 62/3 (113), E A 64/5 (118), E A 79 (147), E A 115 (185), E A 117 (1), E A 117/9 (2), E A 119/20, E A 133/4 (6), E A 139/40 (10), E A 143/4 (13), E A 198 (3), E A 199/200 (5), E A 202/3 (12), E A 225 (270), E A 233/4 (3), E A 286/8 (45), E A 355 (1), E A 359/60 (6), E A 365 (11), E A 369 (13), E A 384/3 (13)

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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.