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Definition 2024
haista
haista
Finnish
Verb
haista
- (intransitive) To smell (like = ablative), to have a smell/scent/odor; to stink.
- Nämä kukat haisevat hyviltä.
- These flowers smell good.
- Hyi, miten tämä huone haisee (pahalta)!
- Yuck, this room stinks!
- Nämä kukat haisevat hyviltä.
- (figuratively) To smell like, stink, reek of.
- Täällä haisee raha.
- This place reeks of money.
- Täällä haisee raha.
Usage notes
The word tuoksu (“smell”) and its derivatives are often associated with pleasant odors and haju (“smell”) with unpleasant ones, but the distinction is not clear-cut. There is also löyhkä (“stench”) which is always unpleasant.
Conjugation
| Inflection of haista (Kotus type 66/rohkaista, no gradation) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative mood | ||||||
| present tense | perfect | |||||
| person | positive | negative | person | positive | negative | |
| 1st sing. | haisen | en haise | 1st sing. | olen haissut | en ole haissut | |
| 2nd sing. | haiset | et haise | 2nd sing. | olet haissut | et ole haissut | |
| 3rd sing. | haisee | ei haise | 3rd sing. | on haissut | ei ole haissut | |
| 1st plur. | haisemme | emme haise | 1st plur. | olemme haisseet | emme ole haisseet | |
| 2nd plur. | haisette | ette haise | 2nd plur. | olette haisseet | ette ole haisseet | |
| 3rd plur. | haisevat | eivät haise | 3rd plur. | ovat haisseet | eivät ole haisseet | |
| passive | haistaan | ei haista | passive | on haistu | ei ole haistu | |
| past tense | pluperfect | |||||
| person | positive | negative | person | positive | negative | |
| 1st sing. | haisin | en haissut | 1st sing. | olin haissut | en ollut haissut | |
| 2nd sing. | haisit | et haissut | 2nd sing. | olit haissut | et ollut haissut | |
| 3rd sing. | haisi | ei haissut | 3rd sing. | oli haissut | ei ollut haissut | |
| 1st plur. | haisimme | emme haisseet | 1st plur. | olimme haisseet | emme olleet haisseet | |
| 2nd plur. | haisitte | ette haisseet | 2nd plur. | olitte haisseet | ette olleet haisseet | |
| 3rd plur. | haisivat | eivät haisseet | 3rd plur. | olivat haisseet | eivät olleet haisseet | |
| passive | haistiin | ei haistu | passive | oli haistu | ei ollut haistu | |
| conditional mood | ||||||
| present | perfect | |||||
| person | positive | negative | person | positive | negative | |
| 1st sing. | haisisin | en haisisi | 1st sing. | olisin haissut | en olisi haissut | |
| 2nd sing. | haisisit | et haisisi | 2nd sing. | olisit haissut | et olisi haissut | |
| 3rd sing. | haisisi | ei haisisi | 3rd sing. | olisi haissut | ei olisi haissut | |
| 1st plur. | haisisimme | emme haisisi | 1st plur. | olisimme haisseet | emme olisi haisseet | |
| 2nd plur. | haisisitte | ette haisisi | 2nd plur. | olisitte haisseet | ette olisi haisseet | |
| 3rd plur. | haisisivat | eivät haisisi | 3rd plur. | olisivat haisseet | eivät olisi haisseet | |
| passive | haistaisiin | ei haistaisi | passive | olisi haistu | ei olisi haistu | |
| imperative mood | ||||||
| present | perfect | |||||
| person | positive | negative | person | positive | negative | |
| 1st sing. | — | — | 1st sing. | — | — | |
| 2nd sing. | haise | älä haise | 2nd sing. | ole haissut | älä ole haissut | |
| 3rd sing. | haiskoon | älköön haisko | 3rd sing. | olkoon haissut | älköön olko haissut | |
| 1st plur. | haiskaamme | älkäämme haisko | 1st plur. | olkaamme haisseet | älkäämme olko haisseet | |
| 2nd plur. | haiskaa | älkää haisko | 2nd plur. | olkaa haisseet | älkää olko haisseet | |
| 3rd plur. | haiskoot | älkööt haisko | 3rd plur. | olkoot haisseet | älkööt olko haisseet | |
| passive | haistakoon | älköön haistako | passive | olkoon haistu | älköön olko haistu | |
| potential mood | ||||||
| present | perfect | |||||
| person | positive | negative | person | positive | negative | |
| 1st sing. | haissen | en haisse | 1st sing. | lienen haissut | en liene haissut | |
| 2nd sing. | haisset | et haisse | 2nd sing. | lienet haissut | et liene haissut | |
| 3rd sing. | haissee | ei haisse | 3rd sing. | lienee haissut | ei liene haissut | |
| 1st plur. | haissemme | emme haisse | 1st plur. | lienemme haisseet | emme liene haisseet | |
| 2nd plur. | haissette | ette haisse | 2nd plur. | lienette haisseet | ette liene haisseet | |
| 3rd plur. | haissevat | eivät haisse | 3rd plur. | lienevät haisseet | eivät liene haisseet | |
| passive | haistaneen | ei haistane | passive | lienee haistu | ei liene haistu | |
| Nominal forms | ||||||
| infinitives | participles | |||||
| active | passive | active | passive | |||
| 1st | haista | present | haiseva | haistava | ||
| long 1st2 | haistakseen | past | haissut | haistu | ||
| 2nd | inessive1 | haistessa | haistaessa | agent1, 3 | haisema | |
| instructive | haisten | — | negative | haisematon | ||
| 3rd | inessive | haisemassa | — | 1) Usually with a possessive suffix. 2) Used only with a possessive suffix; this is the form for the third-person singular and third-person plural. |
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| elative | haisemasta | — | ||||
| illative | haisemaan | — | ||||
| adessive | haisemalla | — | ||||
| abessive | haisematta | — | ||||
| instructive | haiseman | haistaman | ||||
| 4th | nominative | haiseminen | ||||
| partitive | haisemista | |||||
| 5th2 | haisemaisillaan | |||||
Synonyms
- (to smell, have a smell): tuoksua
Antonyms
- (to stink, smell bad): tuoksua
Derived terms
- adjectives: haiseva, hajuton
- nouns: haju
- verbs: momentane haiskahtaa, causative haistaa, factitive causative haistattaa
Etymology 2
Verb
haista
- Indicative present connegative form of haistaa.
- Second-person singular imperative present form of haistaa.
- Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of haistaa.
Usage notes
The imperative form is used to form insults.
Etymology 3
Noun
haista