The Finnish word for rain is
sade
Translations for rain and their definitions
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!) |
sade | |
1. n. (meteorology) any precipitation from the sky (e.g. rain, snow, sleet, hailstones) | |
Sateet tulivat tänä vuonna myöhään.. | |
The rains came late that year. | |
2. n. (by extension) a rain (any matter moving or falling, usually through air) | |
Kranaattisade putosi asemiimme. | |
A rain of mortar fire fell on our positions. |
pudotella | |
1. v. To drop (indifferently and/or repeatedly). |
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