Palkkasimme

Palkkasimme is the first-person plural past tense form of the Finnish verb palkata, meaning to hire or to employ. The form signals that the speaker and others together carried out a recruitment or employment action in the past. It is commonly used in business, HR, and journalistic contexts to report on hiring decisions.

In usage, palkkasimme generally takes a direct object in the form of the person or position hired, often accompanied by a time reference or other contextual details. For example: Palkkasimme uuden projektipäällikön viime kuukaudella. (We hired a new project manager last month.) Palkkasimme kolmannen työntekijän tiimiimme tänään. (We hired a third employee for our team today.)

From a grammatical standpoint, palkkasimme is a finite verb form and part of the predicate. It is transitive and requires an object indicating who or what was hired. The root verb palkata denotes the act of employing someone, while palkka (salary) is a related noun but not used in this verb form to express payment directly.

The term appears in formal and semi-formal writing, such as company announcements, meeting summaries, and news reporting on staffing. Its usage is straightforward and unambiguous in indicating a completed hiring action in the past by the group referred to as “we.”

See also: palkka (salary), palkata (to hire), työpaikka (workplace).