Häiritäverbistä

Häiritäverbistä is a label used in some Finnish linguistic discussions to refer to the base verb häiritä when it is studied as the source form for deriving other grammatical forms. The term is not a standard dictionary entry; rather, it indicates the origin form from which various morphological derivatives are built.

Häiritä means to disturb or to bother and is a transitive verb. In everyday Finnish it is used with a direct object, as in Se häiritsee minua (It disturbs me). The verb serves as an example in grammar when explaining how Finnish derives other forms from a verb, such as participles and nominalizations, or how voice and aspect can be expressed through derived forms.

In discussions of häiritäverbistä, typical derivatives mentioned include the passive past participle häiritty (disturbed) and various nominalizations formed from the verb. The exact set of derivatives depends on the teaching tradition or scholarly framework, and häiritäverbistä functions as a way to talk about derivational patterns rather than a separate lexical item.

Usage and caution: Because häiritäverbistä is not a widely standardized term, it appears mainly in linguistic explanations rather than in everyday language. It is a convenient way to illustrate how a single verb can yield multiple related forms through Finnish morphology, and to compare derivational processes across verbs.

See also: häiritä, Finnish grammar, participles, nominalization.