Teurastetaan

Teurastetaan is the present passive form of the Finnish verb teurastaa, meaning to slaughter or butcher livestock. It translates roughly as “is slaughtered” or “are slaughtered” in English, depending on the subject. The form is commonly used in descriptions of meat production, animal farming, and procedures at slaughterhouses.

In usage, teurastetaan describes a passive process and can refer to individuals or groups of animals that are being slaughtered as part of routine operations or specific events. For example, a sentence like Eläin teurastetaan teurastamossa means “The animal is slaughtered in the slaughterhouse.” The same form can be used for plural subjects: Eläimet teurastetaan.

Related grammatical forms include teurastaa (the infinitive, “to slaughter”), teurastan (first-person singular present active, “I slaughter”), teurastettu (slaughtered, past participle), and teurastettiin (past passive). Noun forms related to the process include teurastus (slaughtering) and teuras (carcass or meat). The term is closely linked to the word teurastamo, meaning slaughterhouse.

Etymology traces teurastaa to the noun teuras, meaning carcass or meat, with the verb-forming suffix -taa. The word is primarily used in formal or descriptive Finnish, including media reporting on meat production and animal welfare contexts, as well as in agricultural and regulatory discussions.

See also: teurastamo, teuras, teurastus.