Kiipeämme

Kiipeämme is the present tense, first-person plural form of the Finnish verb kiipeä, meaning "we climb." It denotes an action carried out by the speaker together with others in the present moment. In Finnish, this form is built with the stem kiipeä and the ending -mme, a standard marker for the 1st person plural in the present indicative.

The verb kiipeä is a regular -ä verb. The form kiipeämme is one of the common present-tense forms that can be used with or without an explicit subject pronoun; Finnish often omits subject pronouns when the subject is clear from context: Kiipeämme.

Usage of kiipeämme includes both physical climbing and metaphorical climbing, such as progressing toward goals. For example, Kiipeämme kalliolle means “We climb onto the rock,” and Kiipeämme kohti uusia tavoitteita translates to “We climb toward new goals.” The negative form is Emme kiipeä tänään, meaning “We are not climbing today.”

Related forms include kiipeän (I climb), kiipeät (you climb), kiipeää (he/she climbs), kiipeätte (you all climb), and kiipeävät (they climb). The noun kiipeäminen refers to the activity of climbing. Finnish verbs like kiipeä exhibit person and number through endings rather than separate subject pronouns, which allows kiipeämme to stand alone or be reinforced with a pronoun for emphasis.