kestä
Kestä is the imperative form of the Finnish verb kestää, meaning to endure, to withstand, or to last. As an imperative, kestä is directed at a single second-person subject and is used to urge someone to endure or to hold on in a difficult moment. The negative imperative is älä kestä, meaning “don’t endure” or “don’t put up with it,” though this construction is relatively uncommon in everyday speech.
In standard usage, kestää governs expressions about duration or endurance, such as se kestää kauan, “it lasts
The form kestä is connected to a family of related words built on the same root, including
Notes on usage and nuance: kestä often carries a practical, action-oriented sense of tolerating or withstanding