Elää

Translations

1. (intransitive) to live, be alive

   Synonym: olla elossa

   Elän kuin viimeistä päivää.

   I live as if this were the last day [of my life].

2. (intransitive) to live (somewhere)

   Synonym: asua

   Olen elänyt koko ikäni tässä kaupungissa.

   I have lived in this town for all my life.

3. (transitive) to live (spend as one's life)
4. (figurative, intransitive) to live (survive, persist; endure in memory)
5. (figurative, intransitive) to change, be in flux
6. (intransitive) to live on [with adessive]
7. (transitive, usually atelic) to breathe (to be very passionate about something)

   Synonym: elää ja hengittää

Conjugations

Indicative Conjugations

The present, imperfect, perfect, and pluperfect (past perfect) tenses in English correspond to "speaks", "spoke", "has spoken", and "had spoken".

Conditional Conjugations

The conditional present and perfect moods in English typically correspond to "would" and "would have".