Yhdistetään

Yhdistetään is the present passive form of the Finnish verb yhdistää, meaning to unite, join, or connect. It denotes that something is being combined or merged, without specifying the agent performing the action. The form is common in formal or technical language when the process itself is the focus of the statement.

Grammatical notes: In Finnish, the passive voice does not express the subject performing the action. Yhdistetään translates roughly to “is/are being combined.” It is used for both singular and plural subjects. The passive form is formed by adding the appropriate ending to the verb stem, with vowel harmony guiding the exact suffix choice. The active counterpart is yhdistää (to combine).

Usage and examples: Yhdistetään is frequently found in contexts such as corporate restructuring, data processing, and official reporting. Examples include: “Kaksi yritystä yhdistetään suureksi konserniksi” (Two companies are being merged into a large group) and “Tietoja yhdistetään saumattomasti” (The data are being combined seamlessly). In legal or technical writing, yhdistetään helps focus on the process rather than the actors involved.

Related forms and terms: The active form is yhdistää (to combine). The reflexive or intransitive form is yhdistyä (to unite oneself; to become affiliated). Related nouns include yhdistys (association, society) and yhdistäminen (the act of combining or joining). Synonyms in similar contexts include liittää (to attach/connect) and liittyä (to join, to be affiliated, when used with the sense of joining a group).

Overview: Yhdistetään serves as a standard passive construction in Finnish to describe the process of combining or linking elements, processes, or entities, particularly in formal, scientific, or administrative text.