Tiivistivät

Tiivistivät is a Finnish verb form meaning "they condensed" or "they summarized." It is the past tense, indicative mood, active voice, for the verb tiivistää, which means to condense, compress, summarize, or distill. The form is created from the stem tiivist- with the past tense plural suffix -ivät, reflecting Finnish vowel harmony. Related forms include tiivistän (I condense), tiivistimme (we condensed), and tiivistivät (they condensed).

Usage of tiivistivät centers on actions where a group reduces a longer text, data set, or presentation into a shorter, essential form. It is common in academic writing, journalism, and everyday speech when describing summarization or distillation of information. For example: "Opettajat tiivistivät luennon pääkohdat" means "The teachers condensed the main points of the lecture." Another example: "He tiivistivät artikkelin keskeiset seikat" translates to "They summarized the article’s key points."

Nuance to note is that tiivistivät emphasizes a completed action performed by multiple subjects. In contrast, tiivistäminen refers to the process of condensing, and tiivistettiin can express a passive or impersonal occurrence: "Artikkeli tiivistettiin" = "The article was condensed." The term is primarily used to describe the production of concise versions of longer material.