tietää

== Finnish == === Etymology === From Proto-Finnic *teetädäk, derived from *tee. Equivalent to tie (“road, way”) +‎ -tää; the original meaning seems to have been "to know the way to" (thus tiedän talon (“I know the way to the house”)). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtie̯tæːˣ/, [ˈt̪ie̞̯t̪æː(ʔ)] Rhymes: -ietæː Syllabification(key): tie‧tää Hyphenation(key): tie‧tää === Verb === tietää (transitive) to know [with elative ‘about’], be aware of (in some cases implying superficial knowledge, see the usage notes below) (transitive, usually atelic) to mean, spell, signify, presage, bode Synonyms: merkitä, enteillä, ennustaa, varoittaa ==== Usage notes ==== The irregular past participle tiennyt is used much more often than the original, regular active past participle tietänyt, which is falling out of use, although still fully comprehensible. tietty is originally probably the irregular passive past participle variant, but it is used as an adjective, not in the verb sense. In the third-person singular and plural potential the form can be regular with ⟨-tä-⟩ or irregular with ⟨-nn-⟩. (to know): When that who or which is known is the direct object, the English verb "to know" can be translated into Finnish with either tietää or tuntea. The difference is that tietää usually expresses superficial knowledge about something, e.g. knowledge that the thing in question exists, whereas tuntea expresses more personal, subjective, detailed or deeper knowledge. This does not apply in cases where tuntea may not be used to mean “to know”, e.g. when used with a referative construction (like tiesin sinun tulevan... in the examples above), with a relative clause, or when used with an elative complement (for "to know about ..."). ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “tietää”, 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 === Anagrams === eittää