The Finnish word for corner is
nurkka
Translations for corner and their definitions
| nurkka | |
| 1. n. corner (area in the angle between converging walls) |
| kulma | |
| 1. n. angle | |
| 2. n. corner | |
| kulman takana | |
| around the corner | |
| 3. n. (in plural) short for kulmakarvat, , eyebrows | |
| kurtistaa kulmiaan: to scowl |
| kääntyä | |
| 1. v. (intransitive) | |
| 2. v. to change direction, turn, bend, shift | |
| Käänny seuraavasta risteyksestä vasemmalle. | |
| Turn (to the) left in the next crossroads. | |
| Tie kääntyy jyrkästi oikealle. | |
| The road bends sharply to the right. | |
| Tuuli on kääntynyt itään. | |
| The wind has shifted to the East. | |
| 3. v. to change; to take a different turn | |
| Yhtäkkiä keskustelu kääntyi täysin toisenlaiseksi. | |
| Suddenly the discussion took a completely different turn. | |
| Onneni on kääntynyt. | |
| My luck has changed. | |
| 4. v. to convert; to become a believer in a religion (to change religion) | |
| Hän kääntyi kristinuskoon. (illative) | |
| He converted to Christianity. | |
| Hän kääntyi kristityksi. (translative) | |
| He became a Christian. |
| soppi | |
| 1. n. A small quiet spot; corner, nook. |
| nurkata | |
| 1. v. to corner, corner the market (to get command of a stock, commodity, etc., so as to be able to put one's own price on it) | |
| X yritti nurkata rautatieyhtiötä. | |
| X attempted to corner the shares of the railroad stock. |
| saartaa | |
| 1. v. to surround, enclose, encircle (in order not to let the object escape) |
| kääntää | |
| 1. v. | |
| 2. v. to turn | |
| 3. v. ~ ympäri: to tip, turn over, upend | |
| Kun hän käänsi pullon ympäri nukkuvan siskonsa päällä, korkki pullahti irti. | |
| When he upended the bottle over his sleeping sister, the lid popped off. | |
| Kääntyä kyljelle | |
| Turn to the side/ lie on your side. | |
| 4. v. to translate (from = elative, to = translative or illative) | |
| Kirja käännettiin englannista suomeen. | |
| The book was translated from English to Finnish. | |
| 5. v. (grammar) to invert (word order) | |
| 6. v. (computing) to compile | |
| 7. v. (colloquial) to steal |
| 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 |
| sopukka | |
| 1. n. corner, nook |
| pussittaa | |
| 1. v. To pouch (to enclose in a pouch). | |
| 2. v. To trap as in a pouch, also figuratively. | |
| 3. v. To hang as a pouch or shaped as a pouch. | |
| 4. v. (billiards) To pocket. |
| kadunkulma | |
| 1. n. streetcorner |
| nurkkaus | |
| 1. n. corner |
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