teadma

‘know’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	know
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	5,639
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 5,639

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

teada, tea, teademata, teab, teaksin, teadnud, teate, teadke, tiada, tean, teadsid, teadsin, tead, teaks, teaneb, tiidut, teadma, tiiäs, teadis, teadmata, tiaksin, tiadsid, teadamata, teame, tianeb, tiadnud, teagi, teademaie, täädsid, tiiäi, teadevada, tiadsin, teand, teädä, teadavalla, teanud, tiate, tiidmäldä, teädke, teadeval … and 145 more of 185 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

teadma · tean 46

1. informatsiooni omama, millestki teadlik olema, milleski selgusel, kindel olema; endale aru andma
2. (ära) tundma, tuttav olema
3. oskama; taipama, märkama, millegi peale tulema
4. esineb ebaselgust, ebamäärasust, teadmataolu, kõhklust, kahtlust väljendavates ühendites

(+2)

EMS

teadma

teadmisi omama
(ära) tundma
oskama
ennustama

(+3)

Idamurre

teadma

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
know (known, knew, knows, knowing)	5,021	84.2%
knowledge	509	8.5%
unknown	79	1.3%
unknowing	59	1.0%
unknowingly	34	0.6%
inform (informing, informed)	31	0.5%
message (messages)	22	0.4%
away	9	0.2%
notice	8	0.1%
nothing	7	0.1%
Uses counted	5,960

Example verses

küll mina teaksin mis mina tieksin (AES, MT 3, 10 (34)) read in context
Then I'd know what I would do!
map tea muud kui metsapuud (AES, MT 3, 11 (38)) read in context
I know nothing but forest trees,
tukkudes mul tuodud teada (AES, MT 3, 15) read in context
While dozing, news was brought to me,
nuores kuus sie on ju tiada (AES, MT 25, 13/6) read in context
Young spruce, she is not here,
piaks mu isa seda tiadma (AES, MT 49, 17/8 (7)) read in context
If only my father knew this!
ei tea mis armas jumal tiep mu emakene (AES, MT 59,17/8) read in context
"I don't know what dear God knows, my little mother."
oles mul antud ammu teada kaske (AES, MT 65, 11) read in context
It’s long been known to me, or what?
juba mari teadis seda (AES, MT 174, 32/3) read in context
Mari already knew this;

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
ilma	2,225	517
tark	1,632	316
tegema	1,418	588
andma	1,158	395
kas	911	312
viima	888	354
eks	855	188
jumal	749	176

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
Kättemaks sakstele	234
Kosjahobu söötmine	161
Kaevul kosija	69
Kasvatus asjatu	64
Neiu saatus teadmata	46
Laulu võim	45
Arg laulik	44
Kasvatus asjata	44

Collection places

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

Place	Poems
Haljala	229
Kadrina	154
Ambla	137
Tõstamaa	131
Kuusalu	121
Väike-Maarja	100
Kolga-Jaani	77
Setumaa	76
Harju-Jaani	74
Viru-Jaagupi	73

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1820–1829	2
1840–1849	5
1850–1859	2
1860–1869	14
1870–1879	207
1880–1889	849
1890–1899	990
1900–1909	225
1910–1919	306
1920–1929	339
1930–1939	395
1940–1949	19

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	181
Karl Viljak	106
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	87
koguja teadmata	64
Julius Aleksander Rehberg (Reepärg)	63

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 3,568)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 10 (34), AES, MT 3, 11 (38), AES, MT 3, 15, AES, MT 25, 13/6, AES, MT 49, 17/8 (7), AES, MT 59,17/8, AES, MT 65, 11, AES, MT 174, 32/3, ARS 1, 797/9 (1), ARS 1, 851/7 (1), ARS 1, 900 (2), E A 12/3 (21), E A 21/2 (5), E A 31 (13), E A 59 (106), E A 63 (114), E A 95, E A 97, E A 144/5 (14), E A 200 (6), E A 203 (13), E A 210/1 (8), E A 220 (14), E A 222/1 (16), E A 258/60 (22), E A 281/3 (41), E A 357 (3), E A 365 (11), E A 371 (14), E A 372 (15), E A 406 (14), E A 437/9 (3), E A 471/2 (2), E A 581/2 (10), E A 595/8; 613/4, E A 652/3 (23), E A 695/6 (14), E A 697/9 (16), E A 713/5, E A 739, E A 758 (5), E A 793/4 (4), E A 799 (9), E A 825/7 (4), E A 829/30 (6), E A 831/2 (9), E A 879/80 (4), E A 889/91 (13), E A 893/4 (17), E A 915/6 (29), E A 950 (14), E A 965/6 (5), E A 987 (1), E A 993 (4), E A 997 (2), E A 1009/11 (7), E A 1041/6 (15), E A 1053/4 (2), E A 1054/5 (4), E A 1060 (12)

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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.