keräsin

Keräsin is the Finnish first-person singular past tense form of the verb kerätä, meaning to collect or gather. It translates to “I collected” or “I gathered” in English and is used to describe a completed action in the past with the subject implied as minä (I).

In terms of morphology, kerätä is the infinitive, and keräsin forms the past tense for the first person singular. Other past tense forms include keräsit (you collected), keräsi (he/she/it collected), keräsimme (we collected), keräsitte (you collected, plural), and keräsivät (they collected). The form keräsin is part of the indicative mood and is commonly used in straightforward narrative or explanatory sentences.

Usage notes: keräsin is appropriate in statements about past events, such as activities in everyday life or historical recollections. Finnish often leaves the subject implicit when it is clear from context, so sentences like “Keräsin marjoja metsässä” are natural without repeating an explicit subject. The negative of this form is en kerännyt (“I did not collect”). Keräsin can appear in various syntactic constructions, including subordinate clauses, where the action of collecting is the event being reported.

Related terms include keräys, the noun for the act of collecting or a collection, and kerääjä, the noun for a person who collects. The root kerä- underlies related words such as kerätä, keräys, and kerääjä, all connected to the concept of gathering or accumulating.

See also: kerätä, keräys, kerääjä.