The Finnish word for to fall is
kaatua

Translations for to fall and their definitions

kaatua
1. v. (intransitive)
2. v. To fall (down/over).
3. v. To fall (to die, especially in battle).
Tämä on kaikkien ensimmäisessä maailmansodassa kaatuneiden muistomerkki.
This is a monument to all those who fell in the First World War.
4. v. (of a tree) To fall, crash to the ground.
5. v. (of a wall etc.) To fall, crash, collapse.
6. v. (of a liquid) To spill.
7. v. (computing) To crash.
8. v. (nautical) To capsize, keel over.

putoaminen
1. n. falling

pudota
1. v. (intransitive) To drop, fall (down/off), slip.
Se putosi käsistäni.
It dropped out of my fingers.
2. v. (intransitive) To burst out laughing.
3. v. indicative present connegative of pudottaa
4. v. second-person singular imperative present of pudottaa
5. v. second-person singular imperative present connegative of pudottaa

sataa
1. v. intransitive
2. v. (~ vettä) To rain.
Sataa.
It's raining.
Sataa kaatamalla.
It's coming down in buckets / pouring / raining cats and dogs.
3. v. ~ lunta = to snow.
Sataa lunta.
It's snowing.
4. v. ~ rakeita = to hail.
Sataa rakeita.
It's hailing.
5. v. (figurative use) Variation of idiom equivalent to It's raining cats and dogs.
Minä menen ulos, vaikka (taivaalta) sataisi puukkoja!
I'm going out even if it's raining knives! (Literally: even if knives should be falling from the sky!)

heittäytyä
1. v. (intransitive) To throw oneself.

syntiinlankeemus
1. n. (biblical) the Fall (fall of humanity into the state of sin)

jäädä
1. v. (intransitive)
2. v. + illative, allative to stay, remain
Jäin eilen kotiin, kun muut lähtivät kapakkaan.
I stayed at home yesterday when the others went to a bar.
Jäädä jonnekin (for example Vantaalle, Turkuun)
To stay somewhere (in Vantaa, Turku)
jäädä mieleen
to stick in one's mind
3. v. + location in inessive, adessive + vehicle in elative, often with pois: to get off in the sense of leaving e.g. a train, bus, road
Jää pois Vantaalla/Turussa.
Get off at Vantaa/Turku.
Jää junasta.
Leave the train.
4. v. + jonkin alle: to be run over or hit by a vehicle.
Mies kuoli jäätyään bussin alle.
A man died when he was hit by a bus.
5. v. indicative present connegative of jäätää
6. v. second-person singular imperative present of jäätää
7. v. second-person singular imperative present connegative of jäätää

laskeutua
1. v. (intransitive) to go down, descend.
2. v. (intransitive) to fall, drop, settle.
3. v. (intransitive) to land.

tuho
1. n. destruction

hävitä
1. v. (intransitive) To disappear, vanish.
Yhtäkkiä linnut hävisivät.
Suddenly the birds disappeared.
2. v. (intransitive) To get lost.
Minulta hävisi lompakko kotiin.
I lost my wallet at home. (literally: From me the wallet (= my wallet) disappeared into home.)
3. v. (intransitive) To disperse, dissipate, clear.
Sumu häviää.
The fog is clearing.
4. v. (intransitive) To die out, fade out/away, pass away, become extinct.
Vanhat tavat häviävät.
Old customs die out.
5. v. (intransitive) To lose, suffer a defeat.
Napoleon hävisi taistelun johtuen huonosta ja kokemattomasta armeijastaan ja vihollisen ylivoimasta, minkä vuoksi hänen oli vetäydyttävä Ranskaan.
Napoleon lost the battle because of his weak and unexperienced army and the enemy's superiority, which is why he had to return to France.
6. v. indicative present connegative of hävittää
7. v. second-person singular imperative present of hävittää
8. v. second-person singular imperative present connegative of hävittää

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