Leveät

Leveät is the nominative plural form of the Finnish adjective leveä, meaning "wide" or "broad." It is used to describe plural nouns in the nominative case, reflecting the Finnish system of adjective agreement in number and case. For example, leveät sillat means “wide bridges,” and leveät kadut means “wide streets.” Other plural inflected forms include leveitä (partitive plural) and leveiden (genitive plural). The adjective also forms the comparative leveämmät (wider) and the superlative leveimmät (widest).

In usage, leveä typically describes physical width or breadth, such as objects or surfaces, whereas laaja is often used for breadth in scope or extent, including abstract or figurative senses. Thus leveät describes a tangible width, while laaja might be used for broad concepts like “a wide region” or “a wide range of topics.”

Leveät is not a standalone noun but a grammatical form that appears in noun phrases to modify plural nouns. Its usage is common in everyday Finnish, from descriptions of architecture and infrastructure to more metaphorical expressions about breadth in perspective or opportunity.

As a member of the broader family of Finnish adjectives, leveä and its inflected forms illustrate how Finnish marks agreement through endings rather than relying on word order alone.