olla, Verb

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Indicative present
		Positive	Negative
Singular	i	olen	en ole
	ii	olet	et ole
	iii	on	ei ole
Plural	i	olemme / ollaan	emme ole / ei olla
	ii	olette	ette ole
	iii	ovat	eivät ole

Indicative imperfect
		Positive	Negative
Singular	i	olin	en ollut
	ii	olit	et ollut
	iii	oli	ei ollut
Plural	i	olimme / oltiin	emme olleet / ei oltu
	ii	olitte	ette olleet
	iii	olivat	eivät olleet

Indicative perfect
		Positive	Negative
Singular	i	olen ollut	en ole ollut
	ii	olet ollut	et ole ollut
	iii	on ollut	ei ole ollut
Plural	i	olemme olleet	emme ole olleet
	ii	olette olleet	ette ole olleet
	iii	ovat olleet	eivät ole olleet

Translations & synonyms

be	olla, voida, tapahtua, kestää, merkitä, maksaa
have	olla, saada, hankkia, nauttia, syödä, juoda
constitute	muodostaa, olla, perustaa, asettaa, määrätä
exist	olla, olla olemassa, elää
hold	pitää, olla, omistaa, pitää kiinni, pidätellä, pidellä
lie	olla, valehdella, maata, sijaita, levätä, olla haudattuna
come	tulla, olla, saapua, esittää, käydä, tapahtua
rest	levätä, olla, lepuuttaa, levähtää, jäädä, huilata
carry	kuljettaa, kantaa, olla, siirtää, viedä, sisältää
occur	esiintyä, tapahtua, olla, ilmaantua, sattua
stand	seistä, seisoa, olla, kestää, sietää, pysyä
feel	tuntea, tuntua, olla, tuntea olevansa, koetella, tunnustella
amount to	merkitä, olla, nousta jhk
sit	istua, olla, istuutua, sijaita, sopia, maata
take place	tapahtua, olla
offer	tarjota, antaa, tarjoutua, esittää, uhrata, olla
reside in	olla
figure	laskea, luulla, arvioida, arvella, olla mukana, olla
be perched	istua, olla, sijaita
fare	käydä, voida, olla
pass	siirtää, kulkea, antaa, ohittaa, läpäistä, olla
visit	vierailla, käydä, tarkastaa, asua, vierailla jkn luona, olla
sport	kisailla, ylpeillä jllak, olla

Wiktionary

(copulative) to be (indicating that the subject and the complement of the verb form the same thing)

     Fin: Minä olen onnellinen.
     Eng: ― I am happy.
     Fin: Minä olen lääkäri.
     Eng: ― I am a doctor.

(intransitive) to be (occupy a place)

Fin: Minä olen kotona.
Eng: ― I am at home.

(copulative) to be, constitute, make up, form

Fin: Tuo on maanpetos.
Eng: ― That constitutes (high) treason.

(intransitive, adessive + 3rd person singular + ~) to have; to own, to possess

     Synonym: omistaa (to own), omata (discouraged in most cases)
     Fin: Minulla on/oli/on ollut kissa (nom.). (when in positive sentences, countable nouns in nominative) ― I have/had/have had a cat.
     Eng:
     Fin: Minulla ei ole kissaa (part.). (when in negative sentences, countable nouns in partitive) ― I don't have a cat.
     Eng:
     Fin: Minulla on/oli/on ollut sinut (acc.). (when in positive sentences, personal pronouns in accusative) ― I have/had/have had you.
     Eng:
     Fin: Minulla ei ole/ei ollut/ei ole ollut sinua (part.). (when in negative sentences, personal pronouns in partitive) ― I don't have/didn't have/haven't had you.
     Eng:

(intransitive, inessive + 3rd person singular + ~) to have, to possess (as a feature or capability, as opposed to simple possession; almost always for inanimate subjects)

Fin: Tässä autossa on kaikki lisävarusteet.
Eng: ― This car has all the accessories.

(intransitive, ~ (olemassa)) to exist (the subject often indefinite = in partitive case -> verb in 3rd-pers. singular)

Fin: Rakkautta ei ole (olemassa).
Eng: ― Love doesn't exist.

(intransitive) to behave, act (as if...) (when followed by a essive plural form of a present active participle with possessive suffix, or a subordinate clause beginning with (ikään,) kuin, requiring conditional mood)

Fin: Hän ei ollut huomaavinaan mitään.
Eng: ― He behaved as if he hadn't noticed anything.

(transitive, auxiliary) to have (a verb to build active present perfect tense and active past perfect tense, taking active past participle, ending -nut/-nyt (singular) or -neet (pl.))

     Fin: Olen jo syönyt tänään.
     Eng: ― I have already eaten today.
     Fin: Olemme jo syöneet tänään.
     Eng: ― We have already eaten today.
     Fin: Olin jo syönyt.
     Eng: ― I had already eaten.
     Fin: Olimme jo syöneet.
     Eng: ― We had already eaten.

(transitive, auxiliary) to have (a verb to build impersonal simple past tense, impersonal passive present perfect tense and impersonal passive past perfect tense, taking passive past participle, ending -tu/-ty)

     Fin: Aamiainen oli jo syöty.
     Eng: ― Breakfast had already been eaten.
     Fin: Minulla on/ei ole rahaa (part.). (singular uncountable nouns in partitive in both positive and negative sentences) ― I have/don't have money.
     Eng:
     Fin: Minulla on valta (nom.). (with an uncountable noun in nominative, the meaning or nuance of the sentence changes)
     Eng: ― I've got the power.

(intransitive, 3rd person singular) (there) be

     Fin: Pöydällä on kissa. (when in positive sentences, singular countable nouns in nominative)
     Eng: ― There is a cat on the table.
     Fin: Pöydällä ei ole kissaa. (when in negative sentences, singular countable nouns in partitive)
     Eng: ― There is no cat on the table.
     Fin: Pöydällä on/ei ole kissoja. (plural countable nouns in partitive in both positive and negative sentences)
     Eng: ― There are (some) cats / There are no cats on the table.
     Fin: Lattialla on/ei ole rahaa. (singular uncountable nouns in partitive in both positive and negative sentences)
     Eng: ― There is (some) / There is no money on the floor.

(intransitive, + genitive + 3rd person singular + passive present participle) to have to do something, must do something; be obliged/forced to do something

     Fin: Minun (gen.) on nyt mentävä. ― I have to go now.
     Eng:
     Fin: Minun on palautettava kirja kirjastoon perjantaihin mennessä. ― I have to return the book to the library by Friday. that same in passive: nominative/accusative + 3rd-pers. singular + passive present participle, -tava/-tävä
     Eng: to have to be done, must be done
     Fin: Kirja (nom.) on palautettava kirjastoon perjantaihin mennessä. (countable nouns in nominative) ― The book has to be returned to the library by Friday.
     Eng:
     Fin: Onko sinut (acc.) hiljennettevä pakolla? (personal pronouns in accusative) ― Do I have to make you shut your mouth? (literally, “Do you have to be quietened by force?”)
     Eng:

(transitive) to play a children's game

Synonym: leikkiä

Usage:

In the sense “to have” the verb olla is always in third person singular form and the person who has something is indicated with adessive case. Grammatically the thing owned is the subject-complement of the sentence: minulla on ― I have

sinulla on ― you have

hänellä on ― he/she has

sillä on ― it has

meillä on ― we have

teillä on ― you have

heillä on ― they have

Lassilla on ― Lassi has

kaupungin

terveyslautakunnalla on ― the municipal health board has Same applies through all tenses, infinitives and participles (where they make sense), e.g. minulla

olisi

ollut ― I would not have had

minulla

rupeaa

olemaan ― I am beginning to have The meaning "there be" is rarely used without adverbials (such as those describing a location); it is more common to use olla olemassa in such cases.

olla (+ vähällä) + infinitive = to almost/nearly (do something accidental, harmful, wrong or fateful).

Olin (vähällä) kaatua lattialle. ― I almost fell on the floor.

olla + essive plural form of an active present participle (-vina/-vinä) + possessive suffix = to be supposed to do, pretend to do, put on airs of doing, affect:

Mikä

tämä on olevinaan? (speaker belittling the object in front of her/him) ― What is this supposed to be?

Olit

olevinasi

niin

täydellinen. ― You pretended to be so damn perfect.

olla + fifth infinitive + possessive suffix by person = to be about to do (when something happens preventing it):

Olin

lähtemäisilläni

ulos, kun

puhelin

soi. ― I was about to go out when the phone rang.

olla

määrä (“to be to, to be due to”)

Se on määrä

sulkea

viiden

vuoden

sisällä. ― It is due to close within five years.

genitive + 3rd-pers. singular + pakko + infinitive = to must, have to, be forced to:

Minun on pakko

lähteä

nyt. ― I have to leave now.

genitive + olisi (conditional) parasta + infinitive = had better + infinitive:

hiljaa. ― You had better be silent.

olla + long first infinitive = to be to do something (often implying that one is resigning to fate)

Hän

lähtee, jos on lähteäkseen. ― He'll leave if he is (fated) to leave.

(interjection): olkoon menneeksi (“(okay,...) why not, go ahead, (colloquial) what the hell”)

olkoonkin(, että...) (“never mind (that...)”)

olla

kunnossa (“to be in shape; to be in order”)

If used without an adjective, olla kunnossa is a positive expression, and one might as well say olla

hyvässä

kunnossa (to be in good shape/order):

Olen

kamalassa

kunnossa. ― I'm in an awful shape.

Derived terms:

phrases
oli miten oli
adjectives
oleellinen
olematon
olennainen
oleva
olevainen
nouns
olemus
olento
olio
olo
oltavat
verbs
oleilla (frequentative)
oleskella (frequentative)
olettaa (causative)
oleutua (reflexive)

Etymology:

From several different roots. The normal forms in ol- derive from Proto-Finnic oldak, from Proto-Uralic wole-. Cognates include Estonian olema, Hungarian volt. The forms on and ovat are probably from the same root as oma (and possibly olla, if a frequentative derivation of that root). Cognates are found in Karelian on, Livonian um, Veps om, Votic on, Hungarian van, Võro om/um and ommaq/ummaq. ovat further likely has the standard 3rd person plural -vat in the ending, but could originate from earlier

omat

, with the plural suffix -t. The potential forms in lie- derive from Proto-Finnic leedäk, from Proto-Uralic le- (“to become”). Cognate with Karelian lienöy, Livonian līdõ, Veps linda, Hungarian lenni/legyek, Northern Sami leat.

Source: Wiktionary

Indicative plusquamperfect
		Positive	Negative
Singular	i	olin ollut	en ollut ollut
	ii	olit ollut	et ollut ollut
	iii	oli ollut	ei ollut ollut
Plural	i	olimme olleet	emme olleet olleet
	ii	olitte olleet	ette olleet olleet
	iii	olivat olleet	eivät olleet olleet

Conditional present
		Positive	Negative
Singular	i	olisin	en olisi
	ii	olisit	et olisi
	iii	olisi	ei olisi
Plural	i	olisimme	emme olisi
	ii	olisitte	ette olisi
	iii	olisivat	eivät olisi

Potential present
		Positive	Negative
Singular	i	ollen / lienen	en olle / liene / lie
	ii	ollet / lienet	et olle / liene / lie
	iii	ollee / lienee / lie	ei olle / liene / lie
Plural	i	ollemme / lienemme	emme olle / liene / lie
	ii	ollette / lienette	ette olle / liene / lie
	iii	ollevat / lienevät	eivät olle / liene / lie

Conditional perfect
		Positive	Negative
Singular	i	olisin ollut	en olisi ollut
	ii	olisit ollut	et olisi ollut
	iii	olisi ollut	ei olisi ollut
Plural	i	olisimme olleet	emme olisi olleet
	ii	olisitte olleet	ette olisi olleet
	iii	olisivat olleet	eivät olisi olleet

Potential perfect
		Positive	Negative
Singular	i	lienen ollut	en liene ollut
	ii	lienet ollut	et liene ollut
	iii	lienee ollut	ei liene ollut
Plural	i	lienemme olleet	emme liene olleet
	ii	lienette olleet	ette liene olleet
	iii	lienevät olleet	eivät liene olleet

		Imperative
Singular	i	-
	ii	ole
	iii	olkoon
Plural	i	olkaamme
	ii	olkaa
	iii	olkoot

		Infinitive I
Nom	-	olla
Tra	-ksi	ollaksensa / ollakseen

		Infinitive II
Ine	-ssa	ollessa
Ins	-in	ollen
Ine	-ssa	oltaessa (passive)

		Infinitive IV
Nom	-	oleminen
Par	-ta	olemista

		Infinitive III
Ill	mihin	olemaan
Ine	-ssa	olemassa
Ela	-sta	olemasta
Ade	-lla	olemalla
Abe	-tta	olematta
Ins	-in	oleman
Ins	-in	- (passive)

Infinitive V
olemaisillaan

	Passive
	Positive	Negative
Present	ollaan	ei olla
Imperfect	oltiin	ei oltu
Potential	oltaneen	ei oltane
Conditional	oltaisiin	ei oltaisi
Imperative Present	oltakoon	älköön oltako
Imperative Perfect	olkoon oltu	älköön olko oltu

	Participle
	Active	Passive
1st	oleva	oltava
2nd	ollut	oltu
3rd	olema	-

olla	olla V Pss Ind Prs Pe4 ConNeg
	olla V Act InfA Sg Lat

Word analysis

olla, Verb

Indicative present

Indicative imperfect

Indicative perfect

Translations & synonyms

Indicative plusquamperfect

Conditional present

Potential present

Conditional perfect

Potential perfect

Imperative

Infinitive I

Infinitive II

Infinitive IV

Infinitive III

Infinitive V

Passive

Participle