Finnish

(index ke)

Noun

kenttä

1. A field.
2. (sports) A limited area where a game is played, a playing field. English translation depends on the game. Basketball, tennis and similar games are played on a court, golf on a course, ice-hockey in a rink, soccer on a field or, more rarely, in a pitch and baseball, American football etc. on a field. Kenttä is often combined with a modifier that defines the kind of playing field.

   jalkapallo ~ : soccer field

3. (military) As modifier in compound terms indicates that the object is mobile and meant for use in the battlefield; normally translates as "field" into English.

   kenttäsairaala = field hospital

4. (physics) field
5. (colloquial) signal strength, coverage (e.g. of a mobile telephone)

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• kentät, kätten