kehitttää

Kehittää is a Finnish verb meaning to develop or to cause development in something, typically through planning, effort, or innovation. It is a transitive verb and is used with a direct object referring to what is being developed, such as a product, process, skill, or concept.

Etymology and related forms: The verb is derived from the noun kehitys (development) and is formed with the productive suffix -ttää to express causation, producing a verb that means to bring about or foster development in someone or something. Related words include kehittäminen (development), kehittyä (to develop or grow, intransitively), and kehittäjä (developer). These related terms form a family of words tied to growth, improvement, and progress.

Usage and examples: Kehittää appears across business, technology, education, and public policy contexts. Examples include: "Yritys kehitttää uutta ohjelmistoa" (The company is developing new software) and "Koulutusohjelma kehitttää osallistujien osaamista" (The training program develops participants’ skills). The word functions in various tenses and voices like other Finnish -ttää verbs, and it often expresses deliberate or strategic improvement efforts rather than natural or incidental change.

Notes: Kehittyä is used to describe development in a system or the subject’s own growth (intransitive), while kehitttää emphasizes an agent actively causing development in another object. The term sits within a broader linguistic field of development-related vocabulary in Finnish.