Puhumme

Puhumme is the first-person plural present tense form of the Finnish verb puhua, meaning to speak. It translates to "we speak" or "we are speaking" in English, depending on context. In Finnish, the present tense is used for both habitual actions and current statements, and the subject is often omitted because verb forms carry person and number information.

The verb puhua is a common Finnish verb and follows regular conjugation patterns. The stem is puhu-, and the suffix -mme marks the first-person plural. Other present-tense forms include puhun (I speak), puhut (you speak), puhuu (he/she speaks), puhutte (you all speak), and puhuvat (they speak). Finnish conjugation relies on vowel harmony and does not use separate auxiliary verbs to express the present.

Usage notes: Puhumme is used when the speaker is part of a group performing the action or describing a group activity. With languages or topics, the object often appears in the partitive case, as in "puhua suomea" (to speak Finnish) or "puhumme suomea ja englantia." In everyday speech, the form can describe general statements about language use, collaboration, or ongoing dialogue within a group.

See also: Finnish language, Finnish verbs, verb conjugation.