Verbejä

Verbejä is the plural form of verbi in Finnish, meaning verbs. In Finnish grammar, verbs are a class of words that express actions, processes, events, or states and form the predicate of a clause. They are highly inflected and mark person and number in finite forms, allowing subjects to be identified from verb endings alone.

Finnish verbs are organized into several conjugation classes by their infinitive endings and stem changes. In the present tense, the verb stem receives personal endings: minä -n, sinä -t, hän -Ø, me -mme, te -tte, he -vat/-vät. Example: syödä (to eat) — minä syön, sinä syöt, hän syö, me syömme, te syötte, he syövät. The past tense has forms ending in -in, -it, -i, -imme, -itte, -ivat: söin, söit, söi, söimme, söitte, söivät.

Negation is formed with the negative auxiliary ei and the main verb in its basic form: en syö, et syö, ei syö. The perfect and pluperfect are formed with the auxiliary olla in the corresponding tense plus the past participle: olen syönyt, olin syönyt. The passive voice is formed with a separate set of endings such as -taan/-tään, as in syödään (is eaten / we eat in a generic sense).

Non-finite forms include the infinitive (syödä, to eat), the present participle (syövä, eating/who is about to eat), and the past participle (syönyt, eaten). Verbs also provide moods such as conditional and imperative, and the language uses word order and verb endings to convey meaning rather than inflection alone.