Käsittelimme

Käsittelimme is the Finnish verb form käsitellä in the indicative mood, past tense, first-person plural. It translates to “we handled,” “we dealt with,” or “we processed” in English. The verb käsitellä means to handle, deal with, process, or treat something, such as a matter, data, or a subject. The form käsittelimme is used when the subject performing the action is “we” and the action occurred in the past.

Käyttöalueet for käsitellä are broad and common in administrative, academic, business, and everyday contexts. It can refer to handling a complaint, processing information, treating a patient, or addressing a topic in discussion. For example: “Käsittelimme asiakkaan reklamaation eilen,” meaning we dealt with the customer’s complaint yesterday; “Käsittelimme tutkimuksen aineiston” meaning we processed the study’s data.

Related forms include the present tense käsittelemme (we handle), the infinitive käsitellä, and other past tense forms such as käsittelin (I processed) and käsittelivät (they processed). Finnish verbs follow person-based conjugation, so each form changes with the subject and tense. Käsittelimme, like other past-tense forms, is most commonly found in formal writing and reporting as well as in conversational narration of past actions.