kiihdytetään

Kiihdytetään is the present passive form of the Finnish verb kiihdyttää, meaning to accelerate or to speed up. In Finnish, the passive voice is used when the doer of the action is unknown or generalized, so kiihdytetään describes that acceleration is taking place without specifying who or what is causing it.

Kiihdytetään can be used in technical contexts as well as more everyday language. In engineering or automotive language, it can describe increasing engine speed or process velocity, for example: Moottorin kierroksia kiihdytetään säätämällä polttoaineen määrää. In economic or marketing discussions, it can refer to speeding up growth or demand, such as: Kysyntää kiihdytetään mainonnalla. In science and chemistry, kiihdytys can refer to accelerating a reaction, e.g., Reaktiota kiihdytetään katalyyttien avulla. The form kiihdytetään thus appears in sentences where the instrument, method, or circumstance responsible for acceleration is either implicit or stated with a separate agent phrase.

Etymology and related forms: kiihdyttää is the active verb meaning “to accelerate” or “to hasten.” Related nouns include kiihditys (the acceleration or hastening) and kiihditin/kiihdyttimellä (accelerator or device used to speed up). The past passive form is kiihdytetty, while the active past is kiihdytetti. The term is common in technical reporting, physics, and business contexts, and it remains a general, neutral way to describe the act of becoming faster or more rapid.