taivuttaa

== Finnish == === Etymology === taipua (“to bend”) +‎ -ttaa (causative verb). First adopted to mean “to inflect, declinate, conjugate” by Finnish clergyman and teacher H. K. Corander in 1845, in which sense a semantic loan from Latin īnflectō. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtɑi̯ʋutːɑːˣ/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝i̯ʋut̪ːɑ̝ː(ʔ)] Rhymes: -ɑiʋutːɑː Syllabification(key): tai‧vut‧taa Hyphenation(key): tai‧vut‧taa === Verb === taivuttaa (transitive) to bend (make something curved) to persuade, bend, coerce (try to make somebody change their opinion or make up their mind for something) (grammar) to inflect (a word) (grammar) to conjugate (a verb) (grammar) to decline (an adjective or a noun) (optics) to diffract ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Synonyms ==== (to make curved): vääntää (to persuade): taivutella (softer than taivuttaa) (to conjugate): konjugoida ==== Derived terms ==== === References === === Further reading === “taivuttaa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (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