Imuroidaan

Imuroidaan is the present passive form of the Finnish verb imuroida, which means to vacuum or to clean with a vacuum cleaner. The term denotes that vacuum cleaning is carried out, without specifying who performs the action. It is commonly used in everyday speech as well as in written cleaning instructions and procedural descriptions.

Grammar and usage: In Finnish, the present passive is formed with the ending -aan/-etään depending on the verb class. For imuroida, the form is imuroidaan, meaning “is vacuumed” or “are vacuumed.” The agent is often omitted, making the statement general or impersonal. Examples include matto imuroidaan joka viikko (the rug is vacuumed every week) and lattia imuroidaan ennen pesua (the floor is vacuumed before washing).

Common usage notes: Imuroidaan appears primarily in contexts describing routine cleaning, maintenance schedules, or step-by-step procedures. It may appear in household guides, cleaning service instructions, or workplace hygiene protocols. If the agent needs to be specified, other constructions are used, such as by someone or by a specific person lemmatized with phrases like "minä/imuroin" (I vacuum) or "suunnitelmana on imurointi" (the plan is vacuuming), though these use active forms rather than the passive.

Related terms: The corresponding noun is imurointi (vacuum cleaning). The root noun imuri refers to the vacuum cleaner itself. The verb imuroida is part of the broader set of Finnish -oida verbs formed from nouns to denote instrument-based actions.

See also: Imuri, Imurointi, Imurointi-ohjeet.