Kehitetään

Kehitetään is the present passive form of the Finnish verb kehittää, meaning to develop or to cultivate. It denotes an action of development carried out by an unspecified agent, or by a general agent such as “people” or “we.” The form is commonly used in formal or technical writing to describe ongoing development processes or results.

In Finnish, the present passive is used to focus on the process or outcome rather than the actor. Time reference is provided by context or accompanying time expressions, as Finnish verbs do not by themselves encode future tense. Kehitetään can refer to something that is currently being developed or will be developed in the near future, depending on the surrounding information.

Morphology and usage notes: kehitetään is formed from the verb stem kehitet- plus the passive ending appropriate for the present tense. The agent is typically omitted, leaving the subject undefined. The construction is versatile and appears in software, research, manufacturing, and policy contexts to describe development work without naming who is doing it.

Related terms include kehittäminen (the act or process of development), kehittäjä (a developer), and kehitetty (developed, passive participle). These forms are commonly used in discussions of technology, product design, scientific research, and organizational projects.

Example sentences:

- Ohjelmistoa kehitetään jatkuvasti, jotta käyttäjät saavat paremman kokemuksen.

- Uusia toimintoja kehitetään käyttäjäkokemuksen parantamiseksi.

- Tutkimusmenetelmää kehitetään yhteistyössä muiden instituutioiden kanssa.