elävtävät

Elävtävät is a Finnish verb form. It is the third-person plural present indicative form of the verb elättää, meaning to feed, sustain, or provide for someone or something. In use, elävtävät indicates that multiple subjects perform the action of sustaining or supporting others. Example: He elättävät lapsiaan, meaning “They support their children.”

The sense of elävtävät can be literal, such as supplying meals or material support, or figurative, such as maintaining a livelihood, a family, an institution, or a community. The form is a finite verb and is not used as a standalone noun; it is inflected to agree with its subject in person and number.

Related basic forms include elätän (I sustain) and elättää (to sustain). Finnish verbs inflect for person and number in the present tense, so elävtävät is specifically used when the subject is plural and in the present tense. The term does not represent a separate concept or field of study; it is a grammatical variant of elättää used within sentences to express ongoing action by multiple agents.