Viestämään

Viestämään is a Finnish verb form meaning to communicate or to send a message. It functions as the active infinitive of the verb viestiä or viestittää and is used to express non-finite clauses. The form is created by adding the suffix -mään to the stem viesti-, and it is one of Finnish’s common non-finite infinitive forms, the other being the present infinitive ending in -a/-ä. In grammar, viestimään often appears in constructions that express intention, purpose, or obligation, and in clauses that follow auxiliary verbs requiring an infinitive clause (such as aikoa, saada, voida). It can also be used to describe acts of communicating or delivering information in a non-finite way.

Viestämään is closely related to viesti (message) as its verbal root, and to more specific verbs such as viestittää (to convey, to inform) and viestiä (to message). The nuances among these terms center on the channel and scope of communication: viestittää often implies broader dissemination or reporting of information, while viestiä refers more directly to sending a message.

In Finnish usage, the choice between infinitive forms reflects syntactic requirements rather than fixed meaning. Viestimään provides a way to link actions to communication acts in non-finite clauses, similar to how English uses to communicate in infinitive clauses.