The Finnish word for to shake is
ravistaa
Translations for to shake and their definitions
| ravistus | |
| 1. n. A shake (act of shaking). |
| ravistaa | |
| 1. v. To shake (to cause to move). |
| ravistella | |
| 1. v. To shake (cause to move; indifferently and/or repeatedly). |
| ravistelu | |
| 1. n. A shake (act of shaking). |
| heristää | |
| 1. v. to shake | |
| 2. v. to brandish |
| päre | |
| 1. n. (construction) shake (thin - abt 0.5 cm - wooden shingle made by splitting wood) | |
| 2. n. (idiomatic, in plural) splinters, smithereens; especially in phrases like panna päreiksi (to smash into smithereens), mennä tuhannen päreiksi (to go into splinters). Also vulgar variants pillun päreik | |
| Auto meni tuhannen päreiksi, mutta onneksi kukaan ei loukkaantunut. | |
| The car broke into smithereens but luckily no one was injured. | |
| 3. n. (, colloquial, diomatic) temper; especially in the idiomatic expression polttaa päreensä (to lose one's temper), which would literally translate into to burn one's shingles. | |
| Älä polta päreitäsi turhaan. | |
| Don't lose your temper for nothing. |
| vavista | |
| 1. v. (intransitive) To shiver, shudder, quiver, tremble | |
| Kuu paistaa, kuollut ajaa, hän sanoi ääni vavisten. | |
| When the moon is shining, the dead is driving, he said with a trembling voice. |
| halkeama | |
| 1. n. A crevice. | |
| 2. n. A fissure. | |
| 3. n. A rift. |
| pudistaa | |
| 1. v. to shake (to move one's head once or shortly from side to side, especially to indicate a negative) |
| kätellä | |
| 1. v. To shake hands with. | |
| Se ei kätellessä katso silmiin. | |
| He doesn't look people in the eyes when shaking hands. | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To shake hands (with each other). |
| vilaus | |
| 1. n. flash, tick (very short period of time) | |
| Tulen vilauksessa takaisin. | |
| I'll be back in a tick. |
| järkyttää | |
| 1. v. To shake, take aback. |
| karistaa | |
| 1. v. To shake off. | |
| 2. v. karistaa kannoiltaan: To shake off (someone tracking). |
| täristä | |
| 1. v. (intransitive) To shake (to move from side to side). |
| särö | |
| 1. n. crack | |
| 2. n. infraction |
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