Viesteä

Viesteä is a Finnish noun form that functions as the partitive singular of viesti, meaning a message or a piece of communication. It is used in contexts where the amount is indefinite or when the object is not counted as a definite single item, as well as in certain negations and verb constructions.

In everyday Finnish, the plural form viestejä is more common when referring to multiple messages. The singular partitive viesteä can appear in sentences such as En ole saanut viestiä, which translates to I haven’t received a message. The word viesti covers a broad range of communications, including text messages, emails, and other forms of electronic or written messages. The partitive form viesteä thus marks a non-specific or partial amount of such communications in a sentence.

Etymologically, viesti is the standard Finnish word for a message or communication, and viesteä is its grammatically required partitive form in certain constructions. The term is widely used in contemporary Finnish, particularly in discussions of texting, messaging apps, and digital correspondence.

See also: viesti, viestintä, tekstiviesti, sähköposti.