Repeytyivät

Repeytyivät is a Finnish verb form. It is the third-person plural imperfect form of the verb repeytyä, meaning to tear or rip apart. It is used when several objects or subjects experience tearing, for example fabrics, clothing, or other materials.

In standard Finnish, the form marks a completed tearing event for multiple subjects. The singular past tense form is repeytyi (he/she/it tore), while repeytyivät is used for they tore. The construction is intransitive, describing damage without a direct object.

Examples of usage include: Kankaat repeytyivät voimakkaassa tuulessa, and Housut repeytyivät useasta kohdasta. These sentences illustrate tearing occurring to plural subjects or multiple items in a given scene.

Repeytyivät is commonly found in everyday Finnish, in narrative writing, journalism, and descriptive reporting to convey damage or accidents involving textiles or other materials. See also: repeytyä, repeytyminen.