Period

"Period" in Finnish

piste

(Interjection)

aika

(a length of time)

aika

(history: period of time seen as coherent entity)

ajanjakso

(a length of time)

ajanjakso

(history: period of time seen as coherent entity)

ajankohta

(specific moment during a process)

erä

(division of sports match)

hetki

(specific moment during a process)

jakso

(a length of time)

jakso

(length of time during which something repeats)

jakso

(chemistry: row in the periodic table)

jaksonaika

(length of time during which something repeats)

kausi

(section of an artist's career)

kausi

(geochronologic unit)

kestoaika

(length of time for a disease to run its course)

lause

(rhetoric: complete sentence)

period-geeni

(genetics: type of gene)

periodi

(music: two phrases)

piste

(punctation mark “.”)

päätepiste

(end or conclusion; final point of a process)

tunti

(division of school day)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.