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Finnish
Etymology 1
oikea + -ntaa.
Pronunciation
Verb
ojentaa (transitive)
- to reach out; usually with käsi (“hand”) (to extend one's hand(s) forward)
Hän ojensi kätensä ottaakseen kiinni putoavan lumihiutaleen.- He reached out to catch the falling snowflake.
- to stretch out, reach (to fully extend a part of the body)
Ojenna käsivartesi pääsi yläpuolelle.- Stretch your arms out above your head.
- to extend, project, jut, jut out (to extend a protrusion or appendage outward)
- ojentaa kätensä ― to extend one's arm
- to reach, hand out (to give by stretching out)
Tehtäväni oli ojentaa esitteitä ohikulkijoille.- My job was to hand out brochures to the passers-by.
- to hand, give, reach, pass (to give, pass or transmit with the hand)
- oikea ojentaa, vasen vastaanottaa (folk wisdom) ― if your right palm tickles, you will lose something; if your left palm tickles, you will get something (literally, “the right hands out, the left gets”)
Ojentaisitko tämän laatikon tikapuilla olevalle miehelle?- Can you pass up this box to the guy on the ladder?
- to present, bestow (to present a thing as a gift or honour)
- ojentaa palkinto ― to present a prize
- to lend, in the expressions lend a hand, lend a helping hand
- to reprimand, lambaste, chastise, berate, scold, tell off, chew out (to criticize harshly)
Opettaja ojensi oppilaitaan.- The teacher scolded her pupils.
Kersantti ojensi alokkaita päivittäin.- The sergeant lambasted the new recruits daily.
- to chastise (to punish with corporal punishment)
- Synonyms: kurittaa, rangaista ruumiillisesti
- (military) more commonly laittaa ojennukseen, to dress (to arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers)
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Further reading
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Verb
ojentaa
- third-person singular present indicative of ojentaa
References
- ^ Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN