tavata.
to meet (come face to face with)
Meaning & usage
to meet (come face to face with)
Tapaan hänet teatterin edessä.
to meet (come together in conflict)
tavata vastustajansa
to meet up (to meet by arrangement)
Kun ensi kerran tulet kaupunkiin, meidän pitäisi tavata jossakin.
to encounter
Tapasin karhun metsässä viime kesänä.
Tavataanko niitä koko maassa?
to catch, find
Tapasin mieheni taas baarista.
Kun saavuin kotiin, tapasin hänet nukkumasta.
to touch, meet, feel, hit, catch
Pää tapaa jatkuvasti kattoon, kun se on niin matala.
to touch, fumble
Kuulin oudon äänen juuri kun käteni tapasi ovenkahvaa.
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Finnic *tabat'ak, probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic *dabaną. Cognate with Ingrian tavata, Karelian tavata, Votic tavatõ, Estonian tabama, Ludian tabada, Livonian ta’bbõ (“to guess, to solve a riddle”). Alternatively, sometimes compared with Erzya тавадомс (tavadoms), Udmurt тупаны (tupany, “to fit”), Komi-Zyrian топӧдны (topödny, “to squeeze, to combine, to join”), Hungarian tapad (“to cling, stick”), tapaszt (“to stick, to plaster”).
to have a habit (of doing something), to usually (do) (something), used to (do) (something) (past tense sense), to tend to be
Lapsuudessa tapasin syödä aamuisin leipää ja kaakaota.
Meitä tavattiin kutsua onnenlinnuiksi.
Where this word comes from
Either from the same Germanic source as tavata (etymology 1) or from tapa (“custom, habit, practice”) + -ta.
to spell (a word; to pronounce a word letter by letter or syllable by syllable)
to decipher (to read obscure or almost illegible text)
Where this word comes from
From Swedish stava (“to spell”).
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