Asetamme

Asetamme is a Finnish verb form. It is the present tense, first-person plural of the verb asettaa, meaning to place, set, or establish. It is used when the speaker and others perform the action together in the present.

Conjugation and morphology: Asettaa belongs to Finnish Type 1 verbs, whose infinitive ends with -ta. The present indicative forms include minä asetan, sinä asetat, hän asettaa, me asetamme, te asetatte, he asettavat. The form asetamme combines the stem asett- with the 1st-person plural ending -mme. Finnish orthography can double consonants in certain stems, which is visible in asett- before the endings.

Usage: Asetamme appears in sentences such as Me asetamme tuolin pöydän viereen, meaning “We place the chair beside the table.” It can also express establishing rules or policies, as in Me asetamme säännön voimaan, “We put the rule into effect.” The construction is transitive and typically takes a direct object naming what is being placed or established.

Related terms: The verb asettaa is closely related to the noun asetus (regulation, arrangement). For broader grammar, see Finnish verb conjugation and Finnish verbs.