viettää

== Finnish == === Etymology === From Proto-Finnic *veettädäk. Equivalent to vie- (“to take away”) +‎ -ttää (causative verb). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʋie̯tːæːˣ/, [ˈʋie̞̯t̪ːæː(ʔ)] Rhymes: -ietːæː Syllabification(key): viet‧tää Hyphenation(key): viet‧tää === Verb === viettää (transitive) to spend (time), pass the time viettää iltaa ― to spend the evening viettää lomaa ― to holiday (Aus, NZ, UK), vacation (US) (transitive, usually atelic) to celebrate, commemorate (basically always with a qualifier, such as viettää syntymäpäiviä (“to celebrate birthday, to have a birthday party, etc.”)) (intransitive) to slope (down), incline (dialectal) to entice, attract Synonyms: vietellä, houkutella ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Synonyms ==== (vacation): lomailla (celebrate): juhlia ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “viettää”, 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 4 July 2023 === Anagrams === tietävä