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kuulua.

to be heard/audible

6 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈkuːluɑˣ/[ˈkuːluɑ̝(ʔ)]
  1. to be heard/audible

    intransitive
    Tämän talon seinät ovat niin ohuet, että naapurin riidat kuuluvat olohuoneessamme.
    Kuuluuko nyt?
  2. to be said

    intransitive
    Hän kuuluu olevan rikas.
  3. used to refer to the state of one's life or affairs

    impersonal · intransitive · with-allative
    Mitä kuuluu? -Kiitos, minulle kuuluu hyvää.
  4. to belong [with allative ‘to’] (showing ownership or location)

    intransitive
    Tämä järvi kuuluu minulle.
    Se patsas kuuluu ikkunalaudalle.
  5. to belong [with illative ‘to’] (to be member of)

    intransitive
    Kuulun vapaaehtoiseen palokuntaan.
  6. to be supposed to, to have to, to be necessary, to behove

    impersonal · intransitive · with-genitive
    Sinun kuuluu tehdä se näin.
  7. to concern, to be someone's business

    intransitive
    Miten tämä sinulle kuuluu?
    Hän kysyi, mistä puhuin Samin kanssa. Sanoin, että se ei kuulu hänelle.
Where this word comes from

From Proto-Finnic *kuuludak. Equivalent to kuulla (“to hear”) + -ua (passive verb). * (to belong; to concern): According to Hakulinen, these abstract senses are a semantic loan from Swedish höra, tillhöra, itself a semantic loan from Middle High German hœrec (“obedient; (literally) one who hears”) (see German hörig, gehören for more).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.