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.
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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.
Meanwhile 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?
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