Kehittäisi

Kehittäisi is the Finnish conditional mood form of the verb kehittää, meaning to develop or to cultivate. It represents a hypothetical or contingent action and is commonly used in conditional clauses introduced by if or by context that implies a condition.

Morphology and usage: Kehittäisi is the third-person singular form in the present conditional. Other persons have distinct endings: minä kehittäisin, sinä kehittäisit, me kehittäisimme, te kehittäisitte, he kehittäisivät. The form kehittäisi thus marks a hypothetical subject performing the action, such as “he would develop.” In English translations, it is often rendered as “would develop,” though the conditional in Finnish can carry broader meanings depending on context.

Examples:

- Hän kehittäisi uuden ohjelmiston, jos budjetti olisi suurempi. (He would develop a new software, if the budget were larger.)

- Mitä projekti kehittäisi, jos se saisi tarvittavat resurssit? (What would the project develop if it received the necessary resources?)

Notes: Kehittäisi is not a standalone command or a polite request; it is a grammatical form used within conditional clauses or reported speech to express hypothetical development. It is a regular, productive form in Finnish verb conjugation and follows the standard pattern for the conditional mood of verbs ending in -ttää in their infinitive forms.

Etymology: The form comes from the verb kehittää plus the konditionaali suffix -isi, with the appropriate person ending for the third singular.