FromProto-Finnic*satadak(“to fall”), fromProto-Uralic*śada-, possibly fromIndo-Iranian.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑtɑːˣ/,[ˈs̠ɑ̝t̪ɑ̝ː(ʔ)]
• Rhymes:-ɑtɑː
• Hyphenation^(key):sa‧taa

sataa(transitive, usuallyatelic, impersonal)

1. (meteorology) toprecipitate(to have water in the air fall to the ground): torain,snow,sleet,hail

   sataa kaatamalla ―torain cats and dogs

   Sataa (vettä). ―It's raining.

   Huomennasataa, mutta emme tiedä, tuleeko se vetenä vai lumena.

   It willprecipitate tomorrow, but we don't know whether as rain or snow.

2. (also figuratively) torain(fall down from the sky like rain)

   Minä menen ulos, vaikka (taivaalta)sataisi puukkoja!

   I'm going out even ifit's raining knives!

   (literally, “I'm going out even if knivesshould be falling from the sky!”)

• The same verb is used for all kinds of precipitation, whether it be rain, snow, sleet, hail or something else. If there is no context for which one is meant,sataa on its own is generally understood to refer to rain. The kind can be explicitly specified with modifiers:

  sataa vettä ―torain

  sataa tihkua ―todrizzle

  sataa lunta ―tosnow

  sataa räntää ―tosleet

  sataa rakeita ―tohail

• Although this verb can be used alone (as the single wordsataa), it is very often used with an adverb of place, for examplesiellä(“there”). Since such adverbs are usually added without any literal meaning, they often don't need to be translated, but similar idiomatic use exists in English and other languages:

  (Siellä)sataa.

  It's raining (out/outside).

• “sataa”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2023-07-01

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑtɑː/,[ˈs̠ɑ̝t̪ɑ̝ː]
• Rhymes:-ɑtɑː
• Hyphenation^(key):sa‧taa

sataa

1. partitivesingular ofsata

   sata, kaksisataa, kolmesataa... ―onehundred, twohundred, threehundred...

   Hän yrittää hoitaasataa asiaa samanaikaisesti.

   She's trying to manage ahundred things at the same time.

• aasta,saata,tasaa

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä)IPA^(key): /ˈsɑtɑː/,[ˈsɑtːɑ]
• Rhymes:-ɑtɑː
• Hyphenation:sa‧taa

sataa

1. Alternative spelling ofsatta

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012)Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

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