tehdä gutaa

Finnish

Etymology

From tehdä (“to do, make, cause”) + gutaa (“good, nice”). Originally from Helsinki slang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtehdæˣ ˈɡutɑː/, [ˈt̪e̞hdæɡ̚ ˈɡut̪ɑ̝ː]

Verb

tehdä gutaa (colloquial, impersonal)

1. to be healthy for one; to be pleasurable

   Saunominen se tekee gutaa’. ― Going to the sauna is great for you.

Conjugation

See tehdä; gutaa is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.