-ttaa

== Finnish == === Etymology === From Proto-Finnic *-ttadak, from Proto-Uralic *-kta-, *-pta- (conflated). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /-tːɑːˣ/, [-t̪ːɑ̝ː(ʔ)] === Suffix === -ttaa (front vowel harmony variant -ttää, stem -tta-, linguistic notation -ttA- or -ttAA) Forms causative verbs from verbs and nominals. ‎syntyä (“to be born”) + ‎-ttaa → ‎synnyttää (“to give birth”) ‎syödä (“to eat”) + ‎-ttaa → ‎syöttää (“to feed”) ‎muistaa (“to remember”) + ‎-ttaa → ‎muistuttaa (“to remind”) ‎kantaa (“to carry”) + ‎-ttaa → ‎kannattaa (“to support”) ‎kasvaa (“to grow”) + ‎-ttaa → ‎kasvattaa (“to raise”) ‎metsä (“forest”) + ‎-ttaa → ‎metsittää (“to afforest”) ‎höyry (“steam”) + ‎-ttaa → ‎höyryttää (“to steam; in the sense to treat with steam”) Forms emotive causative verbs which express having feelings, urges, needs, etc. These generally appear with the subject of the feeling in the partitive case. Often the same verb can also be used as an ordinary causative verb to express a feeling being caused by something. The connection between the original verb and the feeling expressed is not always literal. ‎jano (“thirst”) + ‎-ttaa → ‎janottaa (“to feel thirsty, to make feel thirsty”) ‎suuttua (“to become angry”) + ‎-ttaa → ‎suututtaa (“to feel angry, to make angry”) ‎vittu (“fuck, cunt, a vulgar expletive”) + ‎-ttaa → ‎vituttaa (“to be pissed off, to piss off”) Forms curative verbs (subset of causative verbs) out of transitive verbs. Curative verbs describe an action in which an agent makes a patient do something. If the patient is expressed, it's in the adessive case. They can be often translated into English using "to make someone do" or "to have done by someone". ‎tehdä (“to do”) + ‎-ttaa → ‎teettää (“to have done”) ‎huutaa (“to shout”) + ‎-ttaa → ‎huudattaa (“to make shout”) Used in some onomatopoeic and sound-symbolic verbs. ==== Conjugation ==== Usually: With monosyllabic stems with a (e.g. saada → saattaa): ==== Derived terms ==== ==== See also ==== -uttaa === Anagrams === taat == Ingrian == === Etymology === From Proto-Finnic *-ttadak. Cognates include Finnish -ttaa and Estonian -tada. === Pronunciation === (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /-tːɑː/, [-tːɑː] (Soikkola) IPA(key): /-tːɑː/, [-tːɑː] === Suffix === -ttaa (front vowel variant -ttää) Used to form causative verbs. ‎kuva (“image”) + ‎-ttaa → ‎kuvittaa (“to illustrate”) ‎söövvä (“to eat”) + ‎-ttaa → ‎sööttää (“to feed”) ==== Conjugation ==== Usually: With monosyllabic stems: ==== Derived terms ====