Imevät

Imevät is a Finnish verb form. It is the third-person plural present indicative of the verb imeä, which means “to suck” or “to draw in with the mouth.” As such, imevät is used to describe actions performed by multiple subjects who are sucking or drawing liquid, air, or other substances toward themselves.

Etymology and usage context: imeä is a basic Finnish verb with origins in the common semantically related group of words for drawing in or drawing out through the mouth. The form imevät appears regularly in everyday language whenever the subject is plural and the action is ongoing in the present moment. It can describe ordinary activities, such as infants feeding or people drawing liquid from a container, as well as figurative uses where “sucking” conveys a metaphorical sense of drawing something toward oneself.

Grammatical notes: imevät is a finite verb form used with a plural subject in present time. It is part of standard Finnish verb conjugation for verbs ending in -ä and follows the regular patterns associated with that class. In sentences, it typically takes a direct object or complement that indicates what is being sucked or drawn.

Example sentences: Lapset imevät maitoa pullosta. (The children are sucking milk from a bottle.) He imevät huulensa. (They are sucking their lips.) Such examples illustrate both literal feeding contexts and the general action described by the verb.

See also: imeä, Finnish verbs, Finnish grammar.