Selvittää

Translations

1. to make clear, clarify

   En ymmärrä tätä kappaletta. Voitko selvittää, mitä tarkoitat?

   I don't understand this chapter. Can you clarify what you want to say?

2. to examine, investigate, find out

   Tehtäväni on selvittää, miksi kunnossapitokustannukset ovat nousseet.

   My task is to find out why the maintenance costs have increased.

3. to disentangle

   Tämä narukasa on niin sekaisin, että en pysty selvittämään sitä.

   This heap of cord is such a mess that I cannot disentangle it.

4. to get to the bottom of (to understand, discover the truth about, or solve)

   En tiedä, mitä täällä touhutaan, mutta minä selvitän sen ennemin tai myöhemmin.

   I don't know what's going on here, but I'll get to the bottom of it sooner or later.

5. to clear, like an airplane for departure, goods through customs, or payments between banks
6. to settle, as accounts

   Selvitin tilini hänen kanssaan.

   I settled my accounts with him.

7. to explain

   Kunnossapitokustannukset ovat kaksinkertaistuneet viime vuodesta. Voitko selvittää, mistä on kysymys?

   The maintenance costs have doubled from last year. Can you explain why this has happened?

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".