The Finnish word for rain is
sade
Translations for rain and their definitions
| 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. |
| 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!) |
| pudotella | |
| 1. v. To drop (indifferently and/or repeatedly). |
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