Mättää

Translations

1. (transitive) to shovel, scoop, draw; to lift (and throw) with a scoop, ladle, shovel, spoon, etc.

   Synonyms: ammentaa, lappaa

2. (transitive) to shove, cram (especially to excess)

   Synonyms: ahtaa, lappaa, sulloa, syytää

3. (~ ruokaa) to eat voraciously
4. (dialectal or colloquial) to take something greedily
5. (colloquial, intransitive) to be wrong, to be a problem, to not add up

   Mikä mättää?

   What's wrong? / What's the matter?

   No, nyt rupes tämä homma taas mättämään!

   Oh, now this business began to go wrong, again!

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".