Hyvitti

Hyvitti is the past tense form of the Finnish verb hyvittää, meaning to compensate, reimburse, or make up for something. It is used to indicate that compensation or remediation has occurred in the past, such as after a mistake, a loss, or an inconvenience.

In Finnish grammar, hyvittää is a transitive verb, and hyvitti represents the third-person singular past indicative form. Other related forms include hyvittivät (they compensated) and hyvittäisi (conditional mood). The word is commonly found in both everyday speech and formal or business language when describing restitution or settlement.

Common usages include financial refunds, damages compensation, and actions taken to rectify an error or harm. For example, a company might say, “Yritys hyvitti asiakkaalle aiheuttamansa vahingon,” meaning the company compensated the damage it caused to the customer. Another example could be, “Hän hyvitti virheensä pahoittelemalla ja tarjoamalla korvauksia,” indicating that the person made amends for their mistakes through apologies and compensation.

Hyvitti thus functions as a concise record of past remedial action in Finnish discourse. It is typically found in reports, statements, and journalistic writing where the focus is on what corrective steps were taken and the outcome of those steps.