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From selvitä +‎ -utua.

IPA^(key): /ˈselʋiy̯tyæˣ/, [ˈs̠e̞lʋiy̯ˌt̪yæ(ʔ)]
Rhymes: -yæ
Hyphenation^(key): sel‧viy‧tyä

selviytyä (intransitive)

to survive [with elative]
Hän selviytyi nipin napin sodasta.
He survived the war by the skin of his teeth.
to cope [with elative ‘with’]
to get by [with adessive ‘with’]
Synonym: pärjätä

“selviytyä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03