Pidättää

Translations

1. (transitive) to hold back, restrain, hinder, curb; to suppress; to suspend; to retain

   pidättää virantoimituksesta ― to suspend (from office)

2. (transitive, usually atelic) to delay, detain, slow down, hold up

   Synonyms: viivytellä, hidastella, estellä

   pidättää hengitystään ― to hold one's breath

3. (transitive, law) to detain, apprehend, take into custody, put in detention, put under custody; (non-technical) to arrest, place under arrest (both in legal contexts and elsewhere; put in short-term detention due to reasonable suspicion of having committed a crime)

   Near-synonym: vangita

4. (transitive) to withhold, deduct (advance taxes)
5. (transitive) to reserve (a right)

   Kaikki oikeudet pidätetään. ― All rights reserved.

6. (physics, transitive, usually atelic) to absorb

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".