Tutkitään

Tutkitään is a present passive form of the Finnish verb tutkia, meaning to investigate or to study. In Finnish, the passive voice is used to describe actions where the actor is not specified or is general, and tutkitään expresses that an investigation or examination is taking place. The form is common in formal, scientific, and administrative language, where processes, studies, or evaluations are described without naming a subject.

In practice, tutkitään is used to indicate ongoing examination of a subject, data, or a procedure. It appears in reports, research discussions, policy notes, and news texts to present what is being studied or assessed. For example, a sentence might read: Tutkitään uuden teknologian vaikutuksia energiankulutukseen (The effects of new technology are being studied on energy consumption). Another example: Tutkitään useiden tekijöiden yhteisvaikutusta (The interaction of several factors is being investigated).

Differences from closely related forms can arise from nuance and register. While tutkitään signals a formal, process-oriented investigation, other passive forms of tutkia may be used in similar contexts with slightly different emphasis or regional preference. In any case, tutkitään functions as a standard way to refer to an ongoing or planned examination in Finnish, with the subject left implicit or generalized.