Tarkaste

Tarkaste is a Finnish morphological stem commonly discussed in the context of the verbs meaning to examine or inspect. In standard Finnish, the most widely used verbs with this meaning are tarkastaa (to inspect, to check) and tarkastella (to examine, to study in a more deliberate sense). The stem tarkaste- appears in many inflected forms of tarkastella and related derivatives, rather than as an independent infinitive form.

In practice, tarkaste- serves as the base for present tense and other finite forms of tarkastella. Examples include tarkastelee (he examines) and tarkastelemme (we examine). The stem also appears in participial and infinitival constructions, such as tarkastelemassa (while examining) and tarkastelemaan (to examine, in contexts such as menen tarkastelemaan—“I am going to examine”). The verb tarkastaa can be used to express a more immediate or formal sense of inspection, while tarkastella emphasizes a process of looking into details.

Semantically, tarkaste and its related forms derive from a field of meanings tied to careful checking, verification, and scrutiny. Related nouns include tarkastus (inspection, examination) and tarkastelu (the act or process of examining). The semantic cluster is linked to the Finnish adjective tarkka ('careful, precise'), and to the noun tarkastus through shared notions of verification and accuracy.

See also tarkastaa, tarkastella, tarkastus, tarkastelu. These entries cover the core verbs and nominal forms involved in formal or routine inspection, audit, or study contexts in Finnish.