Pienennät

Pienennät is a Finnish verb form meaning “you reduce” or “you shorten.” It is the second-person singular present indicative form of the verb pienentää, which means to make something smaller, to reduce size, amount, or extent. The base infinitive is pienentää; other present forms include pienennän (I), pienennät (you), and pienentää (he/she/it). The imperative singular is pienennä, and the plural imperative is pienentäkää.

The verb is transitive and commonly takes a direct object, such as a physical dimension, a price, or a quantity. In practical use, pienennät may refer to resizing a digital image, lowering a price, reducing risk, or cutting down measurements in a plan. In technical contexts, it can appear in discussions of scaling, compression, or data reduction, where the goal is to make something smaller while preserving essential properties.

Related nouns and verb forms include pienennys (a reduction or downsizing), pienentäminen (the act of reducing or downsizing), and the past participle pienennetty (reduced). Finnish grammar allows combinations with various objects and modifiers to express different degrees and aspects of shrinking or lowering.

Etymology traces pienentää to the adjective pieni (small) plus the productive causative/enlarging suffix -entää, which forms verbs meaning to cause to become or to make into a certain state.

See also: pienentäminen, pienennys, pienentävä.