Kääritään

Kääritään is the present passive form of the Finnish verb kääriä, meaning to wrap, roll up, or wind around. In the passive form, the action is described without naming the agent performing it, making it suitable for instructions, descriptions, and impersonal statements.

Usage is common in contexts such as packaging, cooking, crafts, and everyday description of wrapped objects. It can denote the literal wrapping of a material (cloth, foil, ribbon) as well as the act of winding something around or enclosing it, for example when a scarf is wrapped around the neck or when food is wrapped for storage.

Grammar-wise, kääritään belongs to Finnish verbs that form the present passive with the suffix -tään (or -ään, depending on the stem). The stem here is kääri-, and the form kääritään is used for general or impersonal statements about wrapping. The subject in passive constructions is typically the object undergoing the wrapping, and the active counterpart is the verb kääriä.

Examples include: "Huivi kääritään kaulaan." (A scarf is wrapped around the neck.) "Leipä kääritään kelmuun ennen säilytystä." (Bread is wrapped in plastic wrap before storage.)

Etymology: kääritään derives from the Finnish verb kääriä, which means to wrap.