Soittaa means to play, for example, an instrument. “Aleksi Laiho Soittaa kitaraa Childrens of Bodom -yhtyeessä”.
You can easily derive the typical nouns from the verb:
soittaja: a (musical) player
soitin: a musical instrument
soitto: music (also musiikki)
In Finnish, you also “play a telephone”, so to phone / call ~ “soittaa puhelimella”.
Conversely, to play a game is “pelata“, not “soittaa” and when the children play, it’s “leikkiä“.
As so often, this verb has also it’s intransitive counterpart (a verb without an object): soida.
Puhelin soi, kuka soittaa? / The phone is ringing, who’s calling?
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