Tekstittämällä

Tekstittämällä is a Finnish gerund formed from the verb tekstittää, meaning “by texting.” It denotes the manner in which an action is carried out using text messages. The term reflects the influence of English technology vocabulary on Finnish and is common in informal written language, online communication, and guidance that describes steps taken via mobile messaging.

Usage and meaning

Tekstittämällä is used to indicate that information is conveyed through text messages. It can function as an adverbial modifier within a clause, for example to explain how something was communicated. In many contexts, especially casual speech or social media, it serves to emphasize the method rather than the content of the message.

Morphology and alternatives

Tekstittää is the base verb, and tekstittämällä is its gerund form. While widely understood, in more formal writing Finnish speakers may opt for alternative phrasings such as tekstiviestein or tekstiviestillä to indicate communication by text message, or other expressions that describe the means without using the gerund form.

Related concepts

In media and broadcast contexts, the Finnish term tekstitys is used to refer to captioning or subtitling, which is a different domain from texting. Although both involve adding textual information, tekstittäminen in the sense of subtitling uses specialized terminology distinct from the everyday texting sense of tekstittämällä.

See also

tekstata; tekstittäminen; tekstitys.