Veistetään

Veistetään is a Finnish verb form that comes from veistää, meaning to sculpt or to carve. It is the present passive tense, used to indicate that something is being sculpted without naming who is doing the sculpting. In translations, it often corresponds to “is being sculpted” or, in some contexts, a general statement like “is sculpted.”

Grammatical notes: In Finnish, the passive voice (such as veistetään) is impersonal and does not specify the agent. The form is used for ongoing processes, artistic actions, or descriptions of works in progress. The present passive can refer to a single subject or a collective sense, depending on context, but the agent remains unnamed.

Usage: Veistetään commonly appears in discussions of sculpture, monuments, architectural ornament, and craft processes. It is typical in museum labels, project announcements, and journalistic descriptions of works in progress. It can also appear in instructions or summaries where the focus is on the act of sculpting rather than who performs it.

Examples:

- Patsas veistetään kaupungin keskustaan. (A statue is being sculpted in the city center.)

- Reliefit veistetään tilauksesta. (Reliefs are being sculpted on commission.)

- Kiveen veistetään koristekuva. (A decorative image is being sculpted into the stone.)

Related forms: veistää (active form “to sculpt”), veistetty (sculpted, past passive), veistettävä (to be sculpted, participial form). The noun veistämö refers to a sculpture workshop or studio, reflecting the broader craft context of veistetään.