kuvitteli

Kuvitteli is the past tense form of the Finnish verb kuvitella, meaning to imagine or to suppose. It indicates that a person imagined something in the past and is commonly used in narrative or reported speech.

Conjugation and forms: kuvitella is an -ella verb. The infinitive is kuvitella. Present tense examples: minä kuvittelen, sinä kuvittelet, hän kuvittelee. Past tense forms include: minä kuvittelin, sinä kuvitteleit, hän kuvitteli. The perfect form is kuviteltu, and the compound perfect with olla would be on kuvitellut (he has imagined).

Usage: kuvitteli describes forming a mental image, scenario, or assumption in the past. It can introduce a content clause with että, as in hän kuvitteli, että hänen matkansa onnistuu. It is commonly used to convey something imagined rather than asserted as fact, and it can appear in both narrative and casual speech.

Examples:

- Hän kuvitteli olevansa rikas. (He imagined that he was rich.)

- He kuviteli, että tilanteessa olisi varaa toimia. (She imagined there would be money to act.)

See also: kuvitella (the infinitive), kuvittelu (the act of imagining, depiction), kuvitus (illustration or depiction).