kehitæ

Kehitä is the second-person singular imperative form of the Finnish verb kehittää, which means "to develop" or "to improve." As an imperative, kehitä is used to give commands, instructions, suggestions or encouragement directed at one person and translates as "develop (it/that)" or more broadly "improve" or "work on." Pronunciation is approximately [ˈke.hitæ], with primary stress on the first syllable.

Typical uses include short directives (e.g., Kehitä ideaasi — "Develop your idea") and imperatives in manuals, teaching, advertising or motivational language (e.g., Kehitä osaamistasi — "Develop your skills"). The polite or plural form is kehittäkää; a common negation for a single addressee is älä kehitä ("do not develop" or "don't improve").

Kehitä appears frequently in compound expressions and slogans in Finnish public, educational and business contexts where development, innovation or personal growth are emphasized. It functions grammatically within Finnish imperative constructions and reflects the language's regular verb morphology for forming commands from infinitives.

Related words include kehitys ("development"), kehittää ("to develop"), kehittäminen ("development, the act of developing"), and synonyms in specific contexts such as paranna ("improve") or kehitä edelleen ("develop further").