The Finnish word for back is
selkä
Translations for back and their definitions
| kääntöpuoli | |
| 1. n. back (the reverse side) | |
| 2. n. (astronomy) farside (of the Moon) |
| takaisin | |
| 1. adv. Back. | |
| Mennään takaisin. | |
| Let's go back. | |
| 2. adv. (colloquial) Back. | |
| Olemme takaisin siinä, mistä aloitimme. | |
| We are back where we started from. | |
| 3. v. first-person singular conditional present of taata | |
| (Minä) takaisin onnesi, jos voisin. | |
| I would guarantee your happiness if I could. | |
| 4. adj. superlative degree of takainen | |
| 5. adj. instructive plural form of takainen |
| tukea | |
| 1. n. partitive singular form of tuki | |
| 2. v. To support, shore/prop/back up (mentally or physically). | |
| 3. v. To support/back (financially), give financial support to, subsidize, finance; to sponsor. | |
| 4. v. To sustain. | |
| 5. v. To substantiate, corroborate. | |
| Onko sinulla mitään, mikä tukisi syytöksiäsi? | |
| Do you have anything that would substantiate your allegations? |
| perä | |
| 1. n. The aft part of anything, the rear, the back, the tail end | |
| 2. n. (nautical) The stern of a vessel. | |
| 3. n. The butt of a gun. | |
| 4. n. (dialectal) A neighbourhood | |
| 5. n. In certain idioms, the truth or the foundation. | |
| 6. n. (colloquial) The bottom or the ass. | |
| 7. n. (archaic) ground. The sense still lives in compound terms, such as: | |
| maaperä | |
| kallioperä | |
| suoperäinen | |
| järkiperäinen (lit: grounded on reason) = rational | |
| perätön = ungrounded |
| selkä | |
| 1. n. (anatomy) back | |
| 2. n. ridge, spine (line or area on a mountain or hill from which one can descend to at least two separate directions) | |
| 3. n. watershed area | |
| 4. n. back, spine (the side where the pages are bound together) | |
| 5. n. open water (expanse of sea or large lake which is distant from shore and devoid of nearby islands or other obstructions) |
| nurja puoli | |
| 1. n. reverse side |
| perukka | |
| 1. n. A back end, out-of-the-way corner or place; often used in plural (a place which is remote or otherwise difficult to reach). | |
| Rahat ovat piilossa komeron perukoilla. | |
| The money is hidden at the back end of the closet. |
| takapuoli | |
| 1. n. rear, backside, behind of something | |
| Talon takapuolella kasvaa omenapuu. | |
| At the backside of the house grows an apple tree. | |
| 2. n. (anatomy) behind, bottom, bum, buttocks, backside |
| vanha | |
| 1. adj. old |
| peruuttaa | |
| 1. v. (intransitive) To back, (of a computer) to backspace. | |
| 2. v. To withdraw, retract, rescind, recant, renege, take back (a statement). | |
| 3. v. To revoke, cancel, call off, invalidate. | |
| 4. v. ~ avioliitto = to annul a marriage. | |
| 5. v. ~ käsky = to countermand an order. | |
| 6. v. ~ sopimus = to nullify a contract. |
| kauemmas | |
| 1. adv. comparative degree of kauas |
| syrjä- | |
| 1. Prefix. back (far from the main area) |
| selkänoja | |
| 1. backrest, back piece of a chair |
| puolustaja | |
| 1. n. defender (someone who defends people or property) | |
| 2. n. defender (a fighter who repels an attack) | |
| 3. n. (sports) defender, back (a player whose primary task is to prevent the opposition from scoring) | |
| oikea ~ : right back | |
| vasen ~ : left back | |
| 4. n. (ice hockey) defenseman, defenceman |
| kiinni | |
| 1. adv. Closed. | |
| Ovi oli kiinni. | |
| The door was closed. | |
| 2. prep. Onto. | |
| Voin pitää kiinni laukustasi. | |
| I can hold onto your bag. | |
| 3. prep. pitää ~ + elative = to stick to, not deviate from. | |
| Me pidämme kiinni periaatteistamme. | |
| We stick to our principles. | |
| 4. post. Onto. | |
| Voin pitää laukustasi kiinni. | |
| I can hold onto your bag. | |
| 5. adv. Into possession (used with ottaa) | |
| Ottaa koiran kiinni. | |
| To catch a dog. |
| taka- | |
| 1. Prefix. A prefix signifying back, rear or hind. |
| takaosa | |
| 1. n. back (the part of something that goes last) |
| poispäin | |
| 1. away, from a place, e.g. to go away |
| syrjäinen | |
| 1. adj. remote, back (far from the main area) |
| takainen | |
| 1. adj. located behind something | |
| talon takainen metsä | |
| the forest behind the house | |
| talon takaisessa metsässä | |
| in the forest behind the house |
| pakki | |
| 1. n. A short form of työkalupakki, which is a box designed to serve as a portable tool storage, a tool box. | |
| 2. n. (colloquial) Reverse, in the sense of reverse gear. | |
| laittaa pakki päälle = to put the reverse on | |
| 3. n. (nautical) If a sailing vessel or any of its sails is in such position relative to the wind that the wind blows from the wrong side of a sail, the sail is said to be pakilla (adessive case of the noun | |
| 4. n. (military) mess kit, A metal container belonging to a soldier's field equipment. The container serves as a cooking vessel and the top doubles as a cup. | |
| 5. n. (colloquial) A defending player in various ballgames; a defenceman; a defender. | |
| 6. n. (colloquial) The event of getting rejected, especially by the opposite sex when approaching her/him. Normally used in plural, pakit. | |
| Hain kolmasti Liisaa tanssimaan, mutta pakit joka kerta. | |
| I asked Liisa three times to dance, but every time. | |
| 7. n. (colloquial) The head of a person. |
| peräpää | |
| 1. n. back (the part of something that goes last) | |
| 2. n. rear |
| hilliten | |
| 1. v. second active infinitive of hillitä in instructive |
| pois | |
| 1. adv. (of movement) away: | |
| Hän meni pois. | |
| S/he went away. (cf. poissa) |
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