pidättää

From Proto-Finnic *pidättädäk, equivalent to pitää (“to keep, hold”) +‎ -ttää.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpidætːæːˣ/,
• Rhymes: -idætːæː
• Hyphenation^(key): pi‧dät‧tää

pidättää

1. (transitive) to hold back, restrain, hinder, curb; to suppress; to suspend; to retain

   pidättää virantoimituksesta ― to suspend (from office)

2. (transitive, usually atelic) to delay, detain, slow down, hold up

   Synonyms: viivytellä, hidastella, estellä

   pidättää hengitystään ― to hold one's breath

3. (transitive, law) to detain, apprehend, take into custody, put in detention, put under custody; (non-technical) to arrest, place under arrest (both in legal contexts and elsewhere; put in short-term detention due to reasonable suspicion of having committed a crime)

   Near-synonym: vangita

4. (transitive) to withhold, deduct (advance taxes)
5. (transitive) to reserve (a right)

   Kaikki oikeudet pidätetään. ― All rights reserved.

6. (physics, transitive, usually atelic) to absorb

• (to arrest, detain etc.): pidättää and vangita may sometimes be confused and used incorrectly synonymously in general language. However, in proper legal language, pidättää means "to detain" (to take into custody for the first time if the subject is suspected of a crime), whereas vangita comes next and means "to arrest, (provisionally) imprison (for the time when the criminal investigation is conducted and the court has made a decision in the case)".

• “pidättää”, 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpidætːæː/,
• Rhymes: -idætːæː
• Hyphenation^(key): pi‧dät‧tää

pidättää

1. third-person singular present indicative of pidättää