Koivat
Koivat is a Finnish term that appears mainly as a grammatical form rather than as a standalone lexeme. It represents the third-person plural past tense in standard Finnish and is used to indicate that a group of subjects performed an action in the past. The precise meaning of koivat depends on the verb it is attached to, since Finnish past tense forms are derived from the verb stem.
In Finnish morphology, past tense for third-person plural is typically formed by adding a plural past ending
Usage of koivat is common in narrative prose and reported speech, where the subject is a plural
Etymologically, koivat reflects the broader Finnic verb-conjugation system, where past tense forms for third-person plural share
See also: Finnish grammar, Finnish verbs, past tense in Finnish.