jätät

Jätät is a Finnish verb form: the second-person singular present indicative of the verb jättää. The base meaning of jättää is to leave, leave behind, drop, or entrust, and the exact sense depends on context. In standard Finnish the verb paradigm is minä jätän, sinä jätät, hän jättää, me jätämme, te jätätte, he jättävät. Jätät is used when the subject is you (singular), often with an explicit or understood pronoun such as sinä.

The form is transitive and typically takes a direct object or a complement indicating what is being left or left behind. Common uses include leaving an item somewhere (“Sinä jätät avaimet pöydälle” you leave the keys on the table) or leaving a place or situation (“Sinä jätät tämän paikan”). Jätää can also express omission or failure to disclose information, as in phrases meaning to leave something unsaid or untold (for example, leaving out details). In questions, the form appears as “Jätätkö … ?” to ask whether the person leaves or omits something, e.g., “Jätätkö minut yksin?”.

Context and nuance are important: jätä can imply intentional action, abandonment, or delegation, depending on the object and construction. The verb supports further idioms and compounds, such as leaving behind traces or leaving a message, and it plays a central role in everyday speech and written Finnish.

Related terms include the infinitive jättää, the noun jättäminen (the act of leaving), and various participial forms used to describe already-left states or ongoing actions.