taivuttaa.
to bend (make something curved)
Meaning & usage
to bend (make something curved)
to persuade, bend, coerce (try to make somebody change their opinion or make up their mind for something)
to inflect (a word) to conjugate (a verb)
to inflect (a word) to decline (an adjective or a noun)
to diffract
Where this word comes from
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.
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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.