tegema

‘make; do’ · runosong lemma · Estonian verb

English gloss	make; do
Part of speech	verb
Language	Estonian
Total occurrences	34,955
By corpus	SKVR 0, JR 0, KR 0, ERAB 34,953

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

tee, tegi, teinud, teeb, tehtud, tegin, teen, tei, teeme, tegema, teha, tegid, tennu, teind, tetä, tehke, teeksin, teevad, teeks, tennü, tehti, tieb, tees, tettä, tehku, tehja, tetta, tetti, tege, tettü, tegemaie, tieme, teiva, teete, teke, tegemä, tehakse, tegemast, teesi, tegemata … and 343 more of 383 attested forms

In Estonian dictionaries

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

EKSS

tegema · kõnek

1. midagi valmistama, tekitama, looma
2. (kusemise, roojamise kohta:) laskma
3. (hääle, häälitsuse kuuldavale laskmise v. helide, müra vms. tekitamise kohta)
4. (hrl. lühemate (suuliste) väljendusvormide kohta:) esitama, jagama vms

(+4)

EMS

tegema

(toidu kohta)
(õmblustööga, meisterdades, ehitades vms)
tootma
seades, sättides, kujundades vms. tegevusega midagi tekitama

(+26)

Idamurre

tegema

Seto

tegemä

(midagi) valmistama, meisterdama, looma `putru keedeti ni `ru̬ u̬ ga

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 · Seto 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
make (made, makes, making)	25,906	65.8%
do (done, doing)	8,666	22.0%
build (built, building, builds)	323	0.8%
let (let's)	200	0.5%
deed (deeds)	90	0.2%
know (known, knows, knew, knowing)	87	0.2%
road (roads, road's)	59	0.1%
undo (undone)	55	0.1%
work (work's, worked, working)	50	0.1%
pole (poles, pole's)	41	0.1%
Uses counted	39,366

Example verses

tieb perenaine võid (AES, MT 3, 3 (7)) read in context
The mistress churns butter,
ema akkas võid tegema (AES, MT 3, 4 (10)) read in context
Mother began making butter,
neid põle teinud meie neiud (AES, MT 3, 5 (12)) read in context
These were not made by our maidens,
tehke mul kivine kerstu (AES, MT 3, 9 (30)) read in context
Make me a stone coffin,
küll mina teaksin mis mina tieksin (AES, MT 3, 10 (34)) read in context
Then I'd know what I would do!
tegi kõhukse kõrgemaks (AES, MT 3, 15) read in context
Made the little belly swell higher,
ma oleks ammu aida teinud (AES, MT 3, 17) read in context
I would've built a storehouse long ago
suur varvas valu tegema (AES, MT 3, 17) read in context
The big toe caused pain.

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
töö	16,128	2,658
õlu	3,437	868
kiik	2,197	796
teder	2,194	467
uus	2,116	795
hääl	1,851	583
tuba	1,826	897
tuul	1,547	436

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
Neiu linn	384
Tule mulle!	377
Tule mulle	370
Kättemaks sakstele	350
Imelik maja	341
Laulu võim	276
Ema haual	236
Tuule tuba	227

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	767
Kuusalu	765
Haljala	715
Paistu	587
Kolga-Jaani	525
Karksi	518
Halliste	516
Ambla	493
Viljandi	475
Tõstamaa	443

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1800–1809	2
1820–1829	24
1830–1839	4
1840–1849	17
1850–1859	10
1860–1869	170
1870–1879	1,392
1880–1889	4,760
1890–1899	5,760
1900–1909	1,349
1910–1919	1,686
1920–1929	1,918
1930–1939	2,486
1940–1949	162
1950–1959	1

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch	676
Karl Viljak	546
Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov	511
Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste)	382
Oskar Philipp Kallas	351

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 21,195)

ERAB: AES, MT 3, 3 (7), AES, MT 3, 4 (10), AES, MT 3, 5 (12), AES, MT 3, 9 (30), AES, MT 3, 10 (34), AES, MT 3, 15, AES, MT 3, 17, AES, MT 3, 17, AES, MT 3, 18, AES, MT 3, 22, AES, MT 3, 25, AES, MT 3, 26, AES, MT 27, 16/31 (6), AES, MT 27, 32/4, AES, MT 29, 4, AES, MT 31, 6, AES, MT 33, 15, AES, MT 34, 5, AES, MT 40, 6/7 (9), AES, MT 40, 10/1 (15), AES, MT 40, 12/4 (17), AES, MT 40, 26 (35), AES, MT 43, 56/7, AES, MT 43, 60, AES, MT 43, 66, AES, MT 43, 69, AES, MT 44, 1, AES, MT 44, 2/3, AES, MT 49, 11/2 (3), AES, MT 49, 19 (8), AES, MT 54, 5 (7), AES, MT 60, 31/2 (17), AES, MT 60, 33/5 (21), AES, MT 60, 35/6 (24), AES, MT 62, 18, AES, MT 66, 1/2, AES, MT 66, 10/12, AES, MT 70, 23, AES, MT 76, 1/2 (1), AES, MT 76, 19/20 (11), AES, MT 76, 28/30 (2), AES MT 287, 4/14, AES MT 287, 18/9, AES, MT 88, 33/5, AES, MT 88, 35, AES, MT 99, 8/10, AES, MT 99, 19/21 (9), AES, MT 117, 54 (5), AES, MT 117, 54/5 (6), AES, MT 141, 4, AES, MT 141, 10/1, AES, MT 141, 12/13, AES, MT 141, 28/30, AES, MT 141, 30/1, AES, MT 146, 10, AES, MT 152, 3/6, AES, MT 154, 4, AES, MT 154, 7/8, AES, MT 154, 13, AES, MT 163, 1/3 (1)

Related lemmas

Finnish cognate: tehdä

← tee tehdä →

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.

Uses of these spellings that the AI analysis read as another word are left out of the verses and counts: In Estonian: tee

The total and per-corpus counts at the top of the page are the lexicon’s: the uses the lemmatizer gave to this word. The uses below are counted by spelling in the same corpora, so a spelling this page shares with another word’s page is counted on both pages, and the two figures can differ either way.

In Estonian:
Uses shown on this page: 35,691
Uses left out as another word: 1,442
Uses left out because the AI reading could not be matched to the verse: 0