väkevä

From Proto-Finnic *väkebä, derived from *väki (“strength, power”).

As a noun, short for väkevä alkoholijuoma, a legal term for liquor that contains more than 22 percent alcohol by volume.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋækeʋæ/, [ˈʋæk̟e̞ʋæ]
• Rhymes: -ækeʋæ
• Hyphenation^(key): vä‧ke‧vä

väkevä (comparative väkevämpi, superlative väkevin)

1. strong (highly stimulating to the senses)
2. strong (having an offensive or intense odor or flavor)
3. strong (having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient)
4. potent (powerfully effective)
5. concentrated (not dilute)
6. (alcoholic beverages) hard

   väkevä alkoholijuoma ― hard liquor

7. strong (having a lot of power; that can exert a lot of force)

   Synonyms: voimakas, vahva

8. (biblical) mighty

väkevä

1. (usually in the plural) liquor (any distilled alcoholic drink)

   En juo väkeviä.

   I don't drink liquor.

• “väkevä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (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

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈʋækeʋæ/, [ˈʋæke̞ʋ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈʋækeːʋæ/, [ˈʋækˑe̝ːʋæ]
• Rhymes: -ækeʋ, -ækeːʋæ
• Hyphenation: vä‧ke‧vä

väkevä (comparative väkevämp)

1. Alternative form of väkövä
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 58:

     Tiukku ja nagru väkevä, kunis oppia ei aleta.

     A game and a loud laugh, until they start to learn.