Syöt
Syöt is the second-person singular present tense form of the Finnish verb syödä, meaning “to eat.” It is used when the speaker directly addresses someone and states that the person is eating or about to eat. For example, in sentences like “Mitä sinä syöt?” (What are you eating?) or “Sinä syöt jo liikaa” (You’re already eating too much), syöt functions as the main verb in present time.
The verb syödä follows a common Finnish pattern for present tense forms. Its full present-tense paradigm is:
Related nouns in the same semantic field include syöte, meaning “input” or “feed,” and syöttö, meaning “feeding”
Pronunciation of syöt is roughly like “syoht,” with a Finnish front rounded vowel in the first syllable