häviää

Häviä is the second-person singular imperative form of the Finnish verb hävitä, meaning to disappear or to be lost. As an imperative, it gives a direct command to the addressee to vanish or cease to be visible from the present position. The form is used with an implied subject you, and appears primarily in literary, emphatic, or dramatic contexts rather than everyday speech.

The verb hävitä denotes disappearance, vanishing, or ceasing to exist, and is intransitive. It is related to nouns such as häviö (loss) and häviäminen (disappearance). The imperative häviä derives from the same verb stem hävi-, with mood and person inflected to express a command.

In modern usage, Häviä tends to occur in stylized language, poetry, or stage directions when a stark, commanding tone is desired. In ordinary conversation, speakers are more likely to use alternatives such as mennä pois (go away) or hävitä jostakin in broader, less direct expressions of removal or disappearance.

Etymology traces hävitä to Finnish roots associated with loss or vanishing, with connections to related forms across Finnic languages. The word is part of a broader family of terms describing disappearance, decline, or destruction.

See also: hävitä, häviö, häviäminen.