pidättää

== Finnish == === Etymology 1 === From Proto-Finnic *pidättädäk, equivalent to pitää (“to keep, hold”) +‎ -ttää. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈpidætːæːˣ/, [ˈpidæt̪ːæː(ʔ)] Rhymes: -idætːæː Syllabification(key): pi‧dät‧tää Hyphenation(key): pi‧dät‧tää ==== Verb ==== pidättää (transitive) to hold back, restrain, hinder, curb; to suppress; to suspend; to retain pidättää virantoimituksesta ― to suspend (from office) (transitive, usually atelic) to delay, detain, slow down, hold up Synonyms: viivytellä, hidastella, estellä pidättää hengitystään ― to hold one's breath (transitive, law) to detain, apprehend, take into custody, put in detention, put under custody; (non-technical) to arrest, place under arrest (both in legal contexts and elsewhere; put in short-term detention due to reasonable suspicion of having committed a crime) Near-synonym: vangita (transitive) to withhold, deduct (advance taxes) (transitive) to reserve (a right) Kaikki oikeudet pidätetään. ― All rights reserved. (physics, transitive, usually atelic) to absorb ===== Usage notes ===== (to arrest, detain etc.): pidättää and vangita may sometimes be confused and used incorrectly synonymously in general language. However, in proper legal language, pidättää means "to detain" (to take into custody for the first time if the subject is suspected of a crime), whereas vangita comes next and means "to arrest, (provisionally) imprison (for the time when the criminal investigation is conducted and the court has made a decision in the case)". ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ==== Further reading ==== “pidättää”, 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 1 July 2023 === Etymology 2 === ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈpidætːæː/, [ˈpidæt̪ːæː] Rhymes: -idætːæː Syllabification(key): pi‧dät‧tää Hyphenation(key): pi‧dät‧tää ==== Verb ==== pidättää third-person singular present indicative of pidättää