Auttaessanne

Auttaessanne is a Finnish grammatical form that functions as the present active participle of auttaa (to help) combined with the second-person plural possessive suffix. It expresses a concurrent action performed by the subject you (plural) and is typically translated as “as you help” or “while you are helping.” The form appears in dependent clauses, especially in written or formal Finnish, signaling that the helping action takes place in relation to the action of the main clause. The base participle is auttaen; adding the possessive suffix -nne gives auttaessanne, aligning the clause with the plural “you.”

Usage of auttaessanne is to denote a simultaneous or incidental action by you plural. It can function as a temporal clause (“as you help”) or frame a sentence in a causal or conditional sense, depending on context. It is relatively formal; in everyday speech Finns more commonly use finite clauses or other participial forms such as auttaessasi (2nd person singular) or simpler constructions with kun auttaisitte.

Examples illustrate the sense of the form. Auttaessanne vanhuksia päivittäin teette yhteis­kunnasta paremman paikan. (As you help the elderly daily, you make society a better place.) Auttaessanne meitä löytämään ratkaisun ymmärrätte tilan­tauksen paremmin. (As you help us find a solution, you understand the situation better.)

Related forms include auttaessani (I as a subject), auttaessasi (you singular), auttaessaan (he/she/they), auttaessamme (we), and auttaessanne (you plural). These participial forms are used to form concise subordinate clauses that refer to actions by different subjects.