Pidättää

Translations

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

   pidättää virantoimituksesta ― to suspend (from office)

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

   pidättää hengitystään ― to hold one's breath

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

   Kaikki oikeudet pidätetään. ― All rights reserved.

5. (transitive, law) to arrest, detain, apprehend, place under arrest, take into custody, put in detention, put under custody (both in legal contexts and elsewhere)
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".