Tallennä

Tallennä is a Finnish verb form associated with the verb tallentaa, meaning to save, store, or record. In standard Finnish, the imperative singular of tallentaa is tallenna, not tallennä; the common imperative form used in software prompts and everyday writing is tallenna. Therefore tallennä is not widely recognized as a standard imperative and is typically regarded as nonstandard, dialectal, or a typographical variant in modern Finnish.

Linguistic notes and usage

Tallennä may appear in some dialects or older texts as an alternative imperative, but it is not part of the standard literary language. In contemporary written Finnish, speakers and writers are advised to use tallenna for singular commands (e.g., Tallenna tiedosto) and tallentkaa for plural (e.g., Tallentkaa tiedostot) to align with official conjugation patterns of tallentaa. When you encounter tallennä, it is usually a nonstandard form, a typographical error, or a localized pronunciation preserved in particular communities.

Related terms and derivatives

- Tallenne: a recording or stored copy.

- Tallennus: the act or process of saving, recording, or storing.

- Tallentaa: the verb meaning to save, store, or record in general.

Contexts

The core meaning remains the same across forms: to create a stored or recorded version of data, media, or information. In computing interfaces, standard prompts use tallena or tallentakaa depending on the target audience and language standardization, whereas tallennä appears mainly in nonstandard spellings or dialectal texts.

See also: tallennus, tallenne, tallentaa.