saama
‘get; become’ · runosong lemma · Estonian and Finnish verb
| English gloss | get; become |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | verb |
| Language | Estonian and Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 71,085 |
| By corpus | SKVR 103, JR 90, KR 28 poems, ERAB 70,892 |
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
sai, saab, saa, sain, said, saad, saanud, saagu, saan, saame, saie, saand, saaks, saama, saanu, saavad, saas, saadi, saime, saate, saadud, saasi, suab, saisa, saage, saivad, saaksin, saiva, sap, sao, saase, saaei, saasõ, saaai, saiõ, saite, sas, saassi, soand, sah … and 339 more of 379 attested forms
In Estonian dictionaries
Definitions are shown in Estonian: the source dictionaries are Estonian-language works.
EKSS
saama · saada, saan, sain, saanud, saadud, saadakse
- 1. väljendab objekti siirdumist kellegi omandusse, valdusse v. kasutusse, lähtudes selle vaatepunktist, kellele see antakse, võimaldatakse, pakutakse, müüakse jne.; ant. andma
Sources: EKSS — Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, Eesti Keele Instituut (CC BY 4.0)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| get (got, gets, gotten, getting) | 92,998 | 76.3% |
| become (became, becomes) | 14,288 | 11.7% |
| receive (received, receives) | 2,737 | 2.2% |
| obtain (obtained) | 1,909 | 1.6% |
| cannot | 827 | 0.7% |
| let | 812 | 0.7% |
| sleigh | 177 | 0.1% |
| arrive (arrived) | 168 | 0.1% |
| Uses counted | 121,820 |
Example verses
- sai on sampu valmeheksi (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
Made the Sampo ready, - sai on samppu valmeheksi (SKVR I1 4 a).) read in context
The Sampo was made ready. - sai kirjokans kirjutetuksi (SKVR I1 6.) read in context
"The patterned cover was finished," - sai kuitengi ei totellun (SKVR I1 8.) read in context
He got it, yet it did not obey; - ma saan peigme pärima (AES, MT 3, 5 (13)) read in context
I'll demand a groom - peale saivad päävaruosid (AES, MT 3, 7 (23)) read in context
On top grew willow rods. - mil aga meie sinna saame (AES, MT 3, 8 (26)) read in context
When will we ever arrive there, - et saaks sarved seisamaie (AES, MT 3, 10 (32)) read in context
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 |
|---|---|---|
| kus | 6,386 | 3,039 |
| sealt | 5,175 | 1,508 |
| kust | 4,500 | 1,263 |
| valmis | 3,331 | 930 |
| naine | 3,168 | 2,195 |
| palkka | 3,056 | 837 |
| sada | 2,697 | 924 |
| mees | 2,182 | 1,942 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Tule mulle! | 398 |
| Tule mulle | 387 |
| Must naine | 340 |
| Laulu võim | 331 |
| Venna sõjalugu | 320 |
| Liiri-lõõri! | 310 |
| Isa- ja mehekodus | 273 |
| Kasvatus asjatu | 255 |
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 | 1,616 |
| Kuusalu | 1,107 |
| Haljala | 942 |
| Paistu | 859 |
| Karksi | 736 |
| Kolga-Jaani | 733 |
| Halliste | 674 |
| Tarvastu | 661 |
| Viljandi | 638 |
| Ambla | 620 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1680–1689 | 2 |
| 1690–1699 | 9 |
| 1700–1709 | 6 |
| 1720–1729 | 1 |
| 1750–1759 | 1 |
| 1760–1769 | 1 |
| 1780–1789 | 19 |
| 1800–1809 | 6 |
| 1810–1819 | 28 |
| 1820–1829 | 121 |
| 1830–1839 | 360 |
| 1840–1849 | 649 |
| 1850–1859 | 628 |
| 1860–1869 | 323 |
| 1870–1879 | 2,205 |
| 1880–1889 | 7,193 |
| 1890–1899 | 8,472 |
| 1900–1909 | 2,448 |
| 1910–1919 | 3,079 |
| 1920–1929 | 3,050 |
| 1930–1939 | 5,089 |
| 1940–1949 | 531 |
| 1950–1959 | 345 |
| 1960–1969 | 382 |
| 1970–1979 | 3 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch | 875 |
| Karl Viljak | 721 |
| Elias Lönnrot | 692 |
| Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov | 654 |
| Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste) | 469 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 36,694)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 4 a)., SKVR I1 6., SKVR I1 8., SKVR I1 9., SKVR I1 9 a)., SKVR I1 11., SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 20., SKVR I1 21., SKVR I1 22., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 42., SKVR I1 50., SKVR I1 53., SKVR I1 55., SKVR I1 58., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 64., SKVR I1 70., SKVR I1 71., SKVR I1 72., SKVR I1 73., SKVR I1 79., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 83 b)., SKVR I1 83 c)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 84 b)., SKVR I1 86., SKVR I1 88., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 96., SKVR I1 97., SKVR I1 99., SKVR I1 103., SKVR I1 105., SKVR I1 106., SKVR I1 120., SKVR I1 121., SKVR I1 122., SKVR I1 123., SKVR I1 132., SKVR I1 237., SKVR I1 251 a)., SKVR I1 252., SKVR I1 275., SKVR I1 304., SKVR I1 339., SKVR I1 339 a)., SKVR I1 353., SKVR I1 354., SKVR I1 354 a)., SKVR I1 355.
Related lemmas
- Finnish cognate: saada
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.