keskittämään

Keskittämään is a Finnish verb meaning to concentrate or centralize. It describes directing attention, resources, or decision-making toward a specific point, issue, or center. The verb is transitive and is commonly used with objects in the partitive, such as keskittää huomion johonkin (to focus attention on something) or keskittää resurssit johonkin (to concentrate resources on something). In business or administration, keskittää can mean consolidating activities in a central unit or location.

Etymology and forms: Keskittää is derived from keskus (center) with the causative suffix -ttää, giving the sense of making something central or bringing it into a center. The related noun forms include keskittäminen (the act of centralizing) and keskittäjä (the centralizer, i.e., the person or thing that centralizes). The adjective keskittävä describes actions or processes that centralize. The form keskittämään is a non-finite variant associated with certain grammatical constructions and is less common in everyday writing than the finite verb keskittää.

Usage notes: Keskittää contrasts with keskittyä, which means to focus one’s own attention rather than to centralize external resources or processes. In competent Finnish, keskittää is used for centralized actions by organizations or systems, while keskittyä emphasizes internal concentration of a person or group.

Examples:

- Yritys keskitti investoinnit voimakkaisiin keskuksiin.

- Hallinto keskittää päätöksentekoa yhdelle elimelle.

- Hän haluaa keskittää huomion turvallisuuskysymyksiin.

Related terms: keskitys (centralization), keskittäminen (the act of centralizing), keskittyminen (concentration or focus of effort).