"pitää kynttiläänsä vakan alla" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [Finnish]

Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], kynttilääni [first-person, possessive, singular], kynttiläämme [first-person, plural, possessive], kynttilääsi [possessive, second-person, singular], kynttiläänne [plural, possessive, second-person], kynttiläänsä [possessive, third-person]
Etymology: Literally, “to keep one's candle under the vakka”, from the Bible. Etymology templates: {{m-g|to keep one's candle under the <i class="Latn mention" lang="fi">vakka</i>}} “to keep one's candle under the vakka”, {{lit|to keep one's candle under the <i class="Latn mention" lang="fi">vakka</i>}} Literally, “to keep one's candle under the vakka” Head templates: {{head|fi|verb|cat2=|cat3=|head=pitää kynttiläänsä vakan alla|sort=}} pitää kynttiläänsä vakan alla, {{fi-verb|head=pitää kynttiläänsä vakan alla}} pitää kynttiläänsä vakan alla Inflection templates: {{fi-infl-vp-partitive|kynttiläänsä}}
  1. (idiomatic) to hide one's light under a bushel (to conceal one's talents or positive qualities, especially due to modesty or shyness; to avoid attention) Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: olla turha vaatimaton
    Sense id: en-pitää_kynttiläänsä_vakan_alla-fi-verb-o5-4s9u6 Categories (other): Finnish entries with incorrect language header, Finnish links with redundant wikilinks, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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      "word": "olla turha vaatimaton"
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