English-Finnish translations for kneel

• polvistua
  Lähestyessäni heitä päätin polvistua ja istua lattialle. Kun olin istuutumassa he sanoivat minulle: "Ette voi istua lattialla. On approaching them, I decided to kneel down and to sit on the floor and they said to me as I went to sit, ‘You cannot sit on the floor.
  Ennen alkusiunausta morsiuspari polvistuu hetkeksi alttarille.
  Analyysi: Grönlanti polvistui kaivosyhtiöille (aamulehti.fi

Definition of kneel

• To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position
• To cause to kneel
• To rest on knees

Examples

• She knelt the doll to fit it into the box.
• He knelt him down to pray.

Related words

• kneeling
• kneeled
• kneeler
• kneel down
• kneel before
• kneel bus
• kneeling chair
• kneeling down