tehdä

‘make; do’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb

English gloss	make; do
Part of speech	verb
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	26,789
By corpus	SKVR 16,182, JR 10,596, KR 958 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

teki, tehty, tehnyt, tein, tekee, teit, tekemä, tekköö, tek, tehtiin, tekevi, teköö, tekemään, tehdä, tekisin, tehä, tehhä, teet, tekivät, tekeepi, tekemässä, tehe, tekisi, tekemän, tekkee, tehny, teht, tekemähän, tehtii, tehnen, tehen, tehkää, tehtynä, tekevät, tieppä, tehdään, tekepi, tehhää, teijaa, tekemät … and 830 more of 870 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
make (made, makes, making, making's)	14,780	60.4%
do (done, doing)	5,108	20.9%
build (built, builds, building)	245	1.0%
let (let's)	241	1.0%
deed (deeds, deed's)	124	0.5%
creation (creations)	63	0.3%
doer (doers, doers')	36	0.1%
indeed	34	0.1%
maker (makers, maker's)	25	0.1%
Uses counted	24,458

Example verses

päivät samppuja tekeöpi (SKVR I1 14.) read in context
By day crafting Sampo parts,
teki pesän polven peähä (SKVR I1 26.) read in context
Built nests on his knee.
teki tiijolla venettä (SKVR I1 42.) read in context
Built a boat with wisdom,
tehtih kokottimet kuuttasyltä (SKVR I1 44.) read in context
tehtih tiijolla venettä (SKVR I1 77 a).) read in context
A boat was made with skill,
teki heän ruotaista romuo (SKVR I1 83 c).) read in context
He made a ribbed frame,
jo teki pesänsä tuoho (SKVR I1 88.) read in context
oikein on otavat tehtu (SKVR I1 89.) 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
paha	8,001	2,200
mikä	6,089	2,186
työ	5,650	1,113
tie	3,342	1,149
siellä	2,664	945
nauris	2,240	416
tupa	1,645	616
paljon	1,564	479

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	371
Tulen sanat	289
Raudan sanat	285
Puun sanat	264
Raudan synty	253
Tulen synty	250
Käärmeen synty	218
Verensulku	186

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	949
Soikkola	571
Lempaala	543
Vuole	362
Sakkola	345
Suistamo	297
Ilomantsi	273
Vuokkiniemi	240
Kaprio	237
Rautu	204

Attestation over time

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

Decade	Poems
1650–1659	1
1660–1669	1
1670–1679	3
1680–1689	2
1690–1699	24
1700–1709	40
1710–1719	1
1730–1739	2
1740–1749	1
1750–1759	7
1760–1769	8
1770–1779	9
1780–1789	83
1790–1799	1
1800–1809	21
1810–1819	158
1820–1829	268
1830–1839	637
1840–1849	1,294
1850–1859	1,386
1860–1869	167
1870–1879	268
1880–1889	2,473
1890–1899	1,675
1900–1909	1,195
1910–1919	1,265
1920–1929	575
1930–1939	2,706
1940–1949	420
1950–1959	513
1960–1969	467
1970–1979	3

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	1,184
Volmari Porkka	769
Kaarle Krohn	570
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori	512
D. E. D. Europaeus	462

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 15,732)

SKVR: SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 26., SKVR I1 42., SKVR I1 44., SKVR I1 77 a)., SKVR I1 83 c)., SKVR I1 88., SKVR I1 89., SKVR I1 92., SKVR I1 102., SKVR I1 123., SKVR I1 135., SKVR I1 138., SKVR I1 141., SKVR I1 149., SKVR I1 156., SKVR I1 287., SKVR I1 295., SKVR I1 305., SKVR I1 315., SKVR I1 317., SKVR I1 321., SKVR I1 323., SKVR I1 329., SKVR I1 330., SKVR I1 334., SKVR I1 340., SKVR I1 344., SKVR I1 353., SKVR I1 354., SKVR I1 354 a)., SKVR I1 365., SKVR I1 369., SKVR I1 375., SKVR I1 376., SKVR I1 377., SKVR I1 378., SKVR I1 379., SKVR I1 380., SKVR I1 382., SKVR I1 384., SKVR I1 387., SKVR I1 387 a)., SKVR I1 392., SKVR I1 393., SKVR I1 395., SKVR I1 399., SKVR I1 401., SKVR I1 403., SKVR I1 405., SKVR I1 410., SKVR I1 410 a)., SKVR I1 412., SKVR I1 414., SKVR I1 415., SKVR I1 416., SKVR I1 419., SKVR I1 420., SKVR I1 422., SKVR I1 423.

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: tegema

← tegema terve →

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.