kadota

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑdotɑˣ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑdotɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): ka‧do‧ta

From Proto-Finnic *kadot'ak, from Proto-Uralic *kaďa(w)- (“to leave”).^[1] Cognates are found in almost every Uralic language, e.g. Northern Sami guođđit (“to leave something, to depart”), Skolt Sami kue´đđed (“to leave smth”), Erzya and Moksha кадомс (kadoms, “to leave”), Eastern Mari кодаш (kodaš, “to stay”), Udmurt кыльыны (kyľyny, “to stay”), Hungarian hagy (“to let; to leave”), Northern Mansi (χūĺ-, “to leave”), Northern Selkup (kuetja-, “to leave (behind)”) (Taz). Labialization of the stem vowel occurred in Proto-Finnic, compare Estonian kadu (“loss”), Estonian kaduma.

kadota

1. (intransitive) to disappear, vanish, fade

   Synonym: hävitä

2. (intransitive) to be lost, go missing

   Synonyms: hukkua, hävitä

   Puhelimeni katosi.

   My phone is missing.

• (to be lost, go missing): kadota takes the illative (or, with some words, allative) case for location, i.e. answers the question "where ... to?" instead of "where?".
  • The elative (or, in some cases, ablative) case is used with etsiä, löytyä, löytää, lukea and kuulla. (i.e. "where ... from?" instead of "where?").
  • The illative (or, in some cases, allative) case is used with saapua, eksyä, eksyttää, jäädä, jättää, hukkua, hukata, kadota, kadottaa, hävitä, hävittää and rakentaa. (i.e. "where ... to?" instead of "where?")

• kadoksissa

• “kadota”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kadota

1. inflection of kadottaa:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• Dakota, dokata, kaadot