Ymmärsitte

Ymmärsitte is the second-person plural past tense form of the Finnish verb ymmärtää, meaning to understand. It translates to "you understood" when addressing more than one person and is used in both spoken and written Finnish to refer to a moment in the past when a group understood something.

Formation and morphology: Ymmärtää is a regular verb of the -ä class. In the past tense, the 2nd person plural form is produced by adding the appropriate past tense ending to the stem, resulting in ymmärritte or ymmärsitte depending on standard orthography conventions. The form is part of a standard set of past-tense endings for personal forms in Finnish, alongside forms like minä ymmärsin (I understood), sinä ymmärsit (you understood), hän ymmärsi (he/she understood), me ymmärrimme (we understood), te ymmärsitte (you understood), he ymmärsivät (they understood).

Usage notes: Ymmärsitte is used to describe a completed understanding at a past time, typically in narration, reports, or conversations. It can refer to understanding a concept, instruction, or what someone said earlier. In questions, the form can appear with question particles or in direct questions about past understanding.

Examples:

- Te ymmärsitte, mitä tarkoitin. (You understood what I meant.)

- Siis, te ymmärsitte jo ohjeen ja aloititte työn. (So you understood the instruction already and started the work.)

Related forms include the present tense te ymmärrätte (you understand) and other person–number forms of ymmärtää, such as minä ymmärrsin and he ymmärsivät. Ymmärtäminen as a noun (ymmärtäminen) is closely related semantically to ymmärtää.