pakastaa

== Finnish == === Etymology === pakkas- (“frost, subzero temperature”) +‎ -taa; compare ukkostaa. The sense “to freeze (food)” was the winner of a competition held by Paulig in 1942 to find a replacement for the technical term syväjäädyttää (similarly the noun pakaste for earlier syväjäädytystuote). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈpɑkɑstɑːˣ/, [ˈpɑ̝kɑ̝s̠tɑ̝ː(ʔ)] Rhymes: -ɑkɑstɑː Syllabification(key): pa‧kas‧taa Hyphenation(key): pa‧kas‧taa === Verb === pakastaa (transitive) to freeze (food, etc.) to a low (around –20 °C) for long-term storage; to deep-freeze (intransitive, of weather) to freeze, get colder (to drop below zero °C) Antonyms: lauhtua, lauheta ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “pakastaa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023