vastata
‘answer’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb
| English gloss | answer |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | verb |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 4,632 |
| By corpus | SKVR 3,324, JR 1,308, KR 126 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
vastaeli, vastaa, vastaelin, vastasi, vastoavi, vastasiit, vastajel, vastata, vastael, vastajeeli, vastasivat, vastajaa, vastais, vastaeliit, vastaten, vastai, vastaele, vastaeel, vastasit, vastaamaan, vastaapi, wastaeli, vastaas, vastaelloot, vastua, vastaat, vastaelliit, vastaisi, vastajelloo, vastasin, vastaelloo, vastattiin, vastoaa, vastataan, wastasi, vassaeli, vastaavat, vastajeloo, vastoavat, wastaa … and 112 more of 152 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 |
|---|---|---|
| answer (answered, answers, answering) | 8,178 | 83.9% |
| against | 470 | 4.8% |
| say (said) | 314 | 3.2% |
| respond (responded) | 160 | 1.6% |
| meet (meets) | 158 | 1.6% |
| reply (replied) | 75 | 0.8% |
| silently | 59 | 0.6% |
| towards | 59 | 0.6% |
| resist (resisted) | 47 | 0.5% |
| oppose (opposed) | 40 | 0.4% |
| Uses counted | 9,747 |
Example verses
- vastai vanha väinämöini (SKVR I1 2.) read in context
- seppo varsin vastaeli (SKVR I1 14.) read in context
The smith retorted: - akka varzin vastovaili (SKVR I1 20.) read in context
- siihi varsin vastoavi (SKVR I1 62.) read in context
- tyttö vastasi (SKVR I1 80.) read in context
The girl answered: - vastai vanha väinämöini (SKVR I1 144.) read in context
- piig on varsin vastuaubi (SKVR I1 149.) read in context
"The maid retorted:" - emo taiten vastaeli (SKVR I1 170.) read in context
Mother wisely answered:
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 |
|---|---|---|
| vasten | 14,971 | 1,501 |
| vaihe | 8,523 | 702 |
| vaaita | 4,601 | 413 |
| vas | 4,116 | 382 |
| neito | 2,510 | 632 |
| vessa | 1,536 | 165 |
| varsin | 1,520 | 220 |
| neekeri | 1,400 | 136 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Rutsa | 119 |
| Tytärten hukuttaja | 118 |
| Oljamissa käynti | 109 |
| Iivana Kojosenpoika | 100 |
| Myyty neito | 100 |
| Konnusta kosinta | 99 |
| Äidin kuolo | 99 |
| Tuonelta kosinta | 84 |
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 | 665 |
| Soikkola | 499 |
| Kaprio | 182 |
| Lempaala | 151 |
| Tyrö | 133 |
| Vuole | 122 |
| Serepetta | 100 |
| Sakkola | 89 |
| Rautu | 80 |
| Venjoki | 67 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1690–1699 | 8 |
| 1700–1709 | 5 |
| 1750–1759 | 1 |
| 1760–1769 | 1 |
| 1770–1779 | 11 |
| 1780–1789 | 16 |
| 1800–1809 | 1 |
| 1810–1819 | 7 |
| 1820–1829 | 31 |
| 1830–1839 | 130 |
| 1840–1849 | 321 |
| 1850–1859 | 532 |
| 1860–1869 | 71 |
| 1870–1879 | 58 |
| 1880–1889 | 852 |
| 1890–1899 | 479 |
| 1900–1909 | 430 |
| 1910–1919 | 218 |
| 1920–1929 | 70 |
| 1930–1939 | 483 |
| 1940–1949 | 96 |
| 1950–1959 | 93 |
| 1960–1969 | 85 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Volmari Porkka | 687 |
| Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori | 280 |
| Elias Lönnrot | 211 |
| Jaako Länkelä | 192 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 187 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 4,008)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 2., SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 20., SKVR I1 62., SKVR I1 80., SKVR I1 144., SKVR I1 149., SKVR I1 170., SKVR I1 182., SKVR I1 198., SKVR I1 200., SKVR I1 208., SKVR I1 210., SKVR I1 213., SKVR I1 229., SKVR I1 252., SKVR I1 281 a)., SKVR I1 288., SKVR I1 291., SKVR I1 300., SKVR I1 318., SKVR I1 319., SKVR I1 321., SKVR I1 345., SKVR I1 353., SKVR I1 357., SKVR I1 433., SKVR I1 437., SKVR I1 441., SKVR I1 442., SKVR I1 453., SKVR I1 457., SKVR I1 473 b)., SKVR I1 479., SKVR I1 487., SKVR I1 488., SKVR I1 500., SKVR I1 583., SKVR I1 621., SKVR I1 634., SKVR I1 659., SKVR I2 704., SKVR I2 757., SKVR I2 772., SKVR I2 784., SKVR I2 800., SKVR I2 803., SKVR I2 927., SKVR I2 936., SKVR I2 958., SKVR I2 969 a)., SKVR I2 979 a)., SKVR I2 1000., SKVR I2 1017., SKVR I2 1018., SKVR I2 1020., SKVR I2 1043., SKVR I2 1044., SKVR I2 1047., SKVR I2 1050.
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: vastama
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.