Kävelimme

Kävelimme is the first-person plural past tense form of the Finnish verb kävellä, meaning to walk. It translates to “we walked” in English and is used to describe a completed action by the speaker together with others. In Finnish, the imperfect tense is used for past events in narrative and description; the language does not encode a distinct continuous aspect, so duration is often inferred from context and adverbs.

The form is constructed from the infinitive kävellä. The imperfect stem is kävel-, and the ending -imme marks the first-person plural past tense, yielding kävelimme. The present tense first-person plural form is kävelemme, a closely related form with a different vowel pattern.

Example usage: Me kävelimme eilen kaupungin halki ja pysähdyimme kahville. This means “We walked across the city yesterday and stopped for coffee.” The form is common in both spoken and written Finnish for recounting past activities and in narrative storytelling. It can also express habitual past actions when paired with adverbs such as usein or aina, depending on context.

See also: kävellä, Finnish verb conjugation, Finnish imperfect.