# tehdä
## Finnish
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tektäk (compare Karelian tehtä, Estonian tegema), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *teke- (compare Northern Sami dahkat, Erzya теемс (tejems), Hungarian tesz; see the Proto-Uralic entry for more).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtehdæˣ/, [ˈt̪e̞hdæ(ʔ)]
* Rhymes: -ehdæ
* Hyphenation: teh‧dä

### Verb

tehdä
* (transitive) to do, perform, execute, carry out
    Mitä sinä teet?What are you doing?
    Meidän täytyy tehdä biopsia selvittääksemme oireiden syyn.We need to perform a biopsy in order to find out the cause of the symptoms.
    Mitä menit tekemään?What did you do? / What have you done? (scolding tone)(literally, “What did you go (to) do?”)
* (transitive) to make, manufacture
    Synonym: valmistaa
    Tein äidilleni kakun.I made a cake for my mom. / I made my mom a cake.
    Mistä se on tehty?What is it made (out) of?
    tehdä huorin ― to commit adultery
* (transitive) to make, render, turn (cause to be) (note: in "make someone happy", "someone" is the 'patient' and "happy" is the 'complement')
** to make, render, turn [with elative (patient) and object (complement: a noun, an adjective, a participle, etc.)]
    He tekivät minusta presidentin.They made me President.
    Ei se tee hänestä pahaa ihmistä.It doesn't make him a bad person.
    Mikä tekee ihmisestä viehättävän?What makes someone attractive?
    Spyker osti Saabin tehdäkseen merkistä entistäkin arvostetumman.Spyker bought Saab in order to make the brand even more prestigious.
    0-100 km/h–kiihtyvyys alle viidessä sekunnissa tekee autosta testaamistamme nopeimmin kiihtyvän.Acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h in under five seconds makes the car the one with the fastest acceleration out of the cars we tested.
** to make, render, turn [with object (patient) and translative (complement: usually an adjective or a participle, only rarely a noun)]
    Hän teki minut iloiseksi.She made me happy.
* (transitive) to commit, perpetrate, carry out, conduct (to do, as a crime, sin, or fault)
    Synonyms: pitää, harjoittaa
* (transitive, informal) to make, cost (said often by the salesperson to the customer)
    Synonyms: olla yhteensä, maksaa, maksaa yhteensä
    Se tekee viisikymmentäyhdeksän euroa.That makes fifty-nine euros.
* (transitive, informal) to do a, pull a (copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned)
    Hän teki Nykäset ja alkoi ryypätä.She did a Nykänen and hit the bottle.(Matti Nykänen, a ski jumping champion, was notorious for his heavy drinking.)
* (transitive, usually atelic) to be in the process of
* (stative, impersonal + genitive) to feel [(adjective) with partitive]
    Minun tekee hyvää ajatella sitä.I feel good thinking it.
    Minun tekee pahaa ajatellakin sitä.I feel bad just thinking it.
* (transitive, of animals) to have, bear (give birth to children)
* (transitive, informal, of people) to have, bear (give birth to children)

#### Usage notes

* (to make/render): Which of the two options is used depends on the part of speech of the result. A noun is very often always expressed with the elative + accusative construction, while an adjective is primarily expressed with accusative + translative, although elative + accusative is sometimes used as well (especially when talking about personal perception or when the action does not render something into a result, but rather a consequence; see the usage examples above).
* ("do a", "pull a"; copy, emulate): What or who is being emulated is practically always in the plural, even if plural forms would not normally be used for that particular word (such as with country names).

#### Derived terms

* kaupantekiäiset
* teennäinen
* tekeille
* tekeillä
* teelmä
* teennös
* tehdas
* tehdikkö
* tehtävä
* tein
* tekele
* tekeminen
* tekijä
* teko
* teos
* teeskellä
* teeskennellä
* teettää
* tekaista
* tekeytyä

#### Collocations

* tehdä ero [genitive] välille ― to make/draw a distinction (between some things)
* tehdä hallaa [+ allative] ― to harm somebody/something, be harmful to, have a harmful effect on (literally, “to do frost (to)”)
* tehdä heinää ― to make hay
* tehdä historiaa ― to make history
* tehdä housuihinsa ― to go, do it in one's pants (colloquial)
* tehdä huonoa [+ first infinitive] (monopersonal, third-person singular, subject in the genitive) ― to feel bad doing something
* tehdä huorin (Biblical) ― to fornicate, commit adultery
* tehdä hyvä vaikutelma [+ illative] ― to make a good impression
* tehdä hyvää [+ first infinitive] (monopersonal, third-person singular, subject in the genitive) ― to feel good doing something
* tehdä hyvää ― to feel good
* tehdä iso numero [+ elative] ― to make big deal out of something
* tehdä itsemurha ― to commit suicide
* tehdä itsensä ymmärretyksi ― to make oneself understood
* tehdä jonkun tahto ― to obey someone (literally, “to do someone's will”)
* tehdä juoksu (sports) ― to hit a home run (literally, “to make a home run”)
* tehdä kaikkensa ― to do everything possible, do everything in one's power
* tehdä kanne [+ elative] ― to file a lawsuit, bring charges against somebody, sue
* tehdä kantelu [+ elative] ― to file a complaint
* tehdä kaupat ― to close a deal (literally, “to make trade(s)”)
* tehdä kauppansa ― to sell (well), be a hot item, go like hotcakes (literally, “to make one's trade(s)”)
* tehdä koe/testi ― to carry out, conduct a test
* tehdä kuolemaa ― to be dying
* tehdä kärpäsestä härkänen ― to make a mountain out of a molehill
* tehdä loppu [+ elative] ― to put an end, put a stop to (literally, “to make an end (of)”)
* tehdä mieliksi [+ allative] ― to try to please someone (literally, “to do to someone's opinion”)
* tehdä mieli ― to feel like (doing or having), to fancy (literally, “to feel like an opinion to”)
* tehdä oikeutta [+ allative] ― to do justice
* tehdä palvelus [+ allative] ― to do a favor
* tehdä parannus ― to repent, mend one's ways (literally, “to do a betterment”)
* tehdä parhaansa ― to do one's best
* tehdä rikos ― to commit a crime, perpetrate an offense
* tehdä ristinmerkki ― to cross oneself (literally, “to make the sign of the cross”)
* tehdä selkoa [+ elative] ― to report on something (literally, “to make clarity on”)
* tehdä selväksi ― to make clear
* tehdä sopimus ― to make an agreement
* tehdä sovinto ― to make up, become reconciled (literally, “to make a reconciliation”)
* tehdä tarpeensa ― to relieve oneself, heed the call of nature (literally, “to do one's needs”)
* tehdä tiliä [+ elative] ― to make a reckoning
* tehdä tuloaan ― to be (in the process of) coming
* tehdä työtä käskettyä ― to follow instructions (literally, “to do the work that one is told”)
* tehdä täyskäännös ― to do an about face
* tehdä vaikutus ― to impress, make an impressino
* tehdä vastarintaa ― to resist (literally, “to do resistance”)
* tehdä virhe ― to commit a mistake, make an error
* tehdä voitavansa ― to do what one can

### Further reading

* “tehdä”, 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 2023-07-03

### Anagrams

* tähde