I was reading an article about renewable energy with my student and realised that these two verbs are very close to each other, yet very different.
Uusiutua = to recur or to be renewed
- Uusi is new.
- Uusiutuva is renewable.
- Pelkään, että syöpä uusiutuu. - I'm afraid that the cancer will come back.
- Mitä ovat uusiutuvat luonnonvarat? - What are renewable natural resources?
Uudistua = to be updated or modernised
- Uudistus is a reform or a renovation.
- Uudistunut is updated.
- Verkkosivumme on uudistunut. - Our website has been updated.
- Tilaa uudistunut Selkosanomat. - Subscribe to the updated Selkosanomat (newspaper in easy Finnish).
- Notice that if you update your social media, the verb is päivittää.
Huh, interesting. The first thing that came to mind for me for "update" was this "päivittää" verb, probably because the number one usage I think of for "update" is a software update, and I believe for this one uses päivittää as well.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile since I am not on social media, I had no clue päivittää was used for this. So when you päivität your social media, do you make a (some)päivitys, or is that not a thing people say?