kiinnitämme

Kiinnitämme is the present tense, first-person plural form of the Finnish verb kiinnittää, meaning to attach, fasten, or fix something in place. It can refer to physical fastening, such as attaching an object to a surface, or to more figurative uses, such as drawing attention to something or attaching importance to an issue. The verb is transitive, so it requires a direct object; that object can be a tangible item (tarra, esine) or an abstract concept (huomiota, merkitystä).

In everyday Finnish, kiinnittää is commonly used for tangible fastening tasks—nailing, taping, mounting, or affixing objects. In digital or administrative contexts, another verb, liittää, is often preferred when talking about attaching files or documents, while kiinnittää may still be used for physical attachments or for phrases like kiinnittää huomio huomiota to something.

Examples of usage include: Me kiinnitämme tarran seinälle. (We attach a sticker to the wall.) Me kiinnitämme ilmoituksen ovesta. (We post or affix the notice on the door.) Me kiinnitämme huomiomme uuteen ohjeeseen. (We focus our attention on the new instruction.) The object case can vary with meaning, with tangible objects often in the accusative or partitive and abstract objects (like huomiota) in the partitive.

Etymology and related forms: kiinnittää comes from kiinni- meaning fixed, with kiinnitys (attachment) and kiinnittäminen (the act of attaching) as common derivatives. The form kiinnitämme is tied to the present-tense, first-person plural conjugation.