Eläisivät
Eläisivät is a Finnish lexical element that appears primarily as a verb form meaning “the animals would live” or “the animals would exist” in conditional mood. It derives from the noun eläin (animal) and the conditional suffix -isi‑, combined with the plural verb ending -vät to form the third‑person plural. Because Finnish inflects nouns and verbs heavily, this form is rarely encountered outside of literary or poetic contexts, and it is not listed as a standard dictionary entry in modern Finnish orthography.
Historically, the form appears occasionally in eighteenth‑century poems and folk ballads where the narrator imagines the
Because the term is not used in everyday Finnish and is limited to a handful of older