työ

• IPA^(key): /ˈtyø̯/,
• Rhymes: -yø
• Hyphenation^(key): työ

From Proto-Finnic *töö, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *tewe; cognate with Estonian and Votic töö, Livonian tīe and Erzya тев (ťev).

työ

1. work (labour, employment, occupation, job)
2. work (effort expended on a particular task)
3. work (physics: mechanics and thermodynamics)
4. work (artistic or intellectual production)
5. work (place of work)
6. job (economic role for which a person is paid)

• When saying "at work", "to work" or "from work", the locational cases are used in the plural:

  Olen töissä. ― I am at work.

  mennä töihin ― to go to work

• (job): duuni (slang, colloquial)
• (artistic or intellectual production): teos
• (place of work): työpaikka; duuni (slang, colloquial)

• “työ”, 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

From Proto-Finnic *töö, variant of *tek.

työ (dialectal)

1. (personal) you (plural)

Inflected forms other than the nominative are identical with or similar to those of te.

• te (standard Finnish)

• yöt, öty

From Proto-Finnic *töö. Cognates include dialectal Finnish työ and Ingrian töö.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʲyø̯/
• Hyphenation: työ

työ

1. you (plural), ye

From Proto-Finnic *töö (“work”). Cognates include Finnish työ and Estonian töö.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʲyø̯/
• Hyphenation: työ

työ (genitive työn, partitive työtä)

1. sliver (of fiber)
2. (North Karelian) work

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “tüö”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) “вы”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN

From Proto-Finnic *töö. Cognates include Karelian työ and Ingrian töö.

• IPA^(key): /tʲyø̯/
• Hyphenation: työ
• Rhymes: -yø̯

työ

1. ye, you (plural)

• N. Gilojeva, S. Rudakova (2009) Karjalan kielen Livvin murdehen algukursu [Beginners' course of Karelian language's Livvi dialect]‎ (in Livvi), Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 10
• Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 301