Tykkäsi

Tykkäsi is a Finnish verb form meaning “liked” and is the past tense, third-person singular form of the verb tykätä, which means “to like.” It is used with a subject in the third person, typically referring to “he” or “she” (hän tykkäsi: he/she liked). The corresponding forms for other persons are tykkäsin (I liked) and tykkäsit (you liked). In full sentences, the form appears as Hän tykkäsi jostakin or Hän ei tykännyt; the negative past uses tykännyt.

Grammar and usage concepts. The root verb is tykätä, a common, colloquial Finnish verb. Tykkäsi follows regular Finnish past tense morphology: the stem changes to express past action, and person is marked by the appropriate ending. The word is widely used in spoken Finnish and informal writing. In more formal contexts, speakers may use synonyms such as pitää tai pitää jostakin, but tykätä remains the everyday, casual option to express liking.

Common phrases and examples. Examples include: Hän tykkäsi elokuvasta. (He/She liked the movie.) Hän ei tykännyt ruoasta. (He/She did not like the food.) Tykkäsi variously takes a direct object or prepositional phrase, as in Hän tykkäsi siitä uudesta kirjasta. The noun form for the act of liking is tykkäys, and the verb’s nominalized form tykätä is used in related expressions such as tykkäyskulttuuri (the culture of liking) in online contexts.

See also. Related concepts include tykätä vs. pitää, tykätys (informal noun for a “like”), and tykännyt (past participle used in negative past constructions). The term remains a staple in casual Finnish discourse.