sataa

From Proto-Finnic *satadak (“to fall”), from Proto-Uralic *śada-, possibly from Indo-Iranian.^[1]

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

sataa (transitive, usually atelic, impersonal)

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

   sataa kaatamalla ― to rain cats and dogs

   Sataa (vettä). ― It's raining.

   Huomenna sataa, mutta emme tiedä, tuleeko se vetenä vai lumena.

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

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

   Minä menen ulos, vaikka (taivaalta) sataisi puukkoja!

   I'm going out even if it's raining knives!

   (literally, “I'm going out even if knives should 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 ― to rain

  sataa tihkua ― to drizzle

  sataa lunta ― to snow

  sataa räntää ― to sleet

  sataa rakeita ― to hail

• Although this verb can be used alone (as the single word sataa), it is very often used with an adverb of place, for example siellä (“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”, in Kielitoimiston 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–, retrieved 2023-07-01

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

sataa

1. partitive singular of sata

   sata, kaksisataa, kolmesataa... ― one hundred, two hundred, three hundred...

   Hän yrittää hoitaa sataa asiaa samanaikaisesti.

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

• aasta, saata, tasaa

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

sataa

1. Alternative spelling of satta

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