kytketään

Kytketään is the present passive form of the Finnish verb kytkeä, meaning to connect, join, or to turn on in the sense of activating a device or circuit. The passive form describes an action that is performed on a subject by an unspecified agent and is commonly used in technical and instructional language.

In practice, kytketään appears in manuals, schematics, and other documentation to indicate that a component or circuit should be connected or activated. Because it is passive, the sentence focuses on the state of being connected or switched on rather than on who performs the action. It is widespread in procedures for electrical equipment, wiring, networking, and software setups.

Grammar and usage notes: kytketään is the present passive, formed from the stem kytke- plus the passive suffix -tään (-tään or -etään depending on harmony). It can refer to singular or plural subjects, with the agent implicitly understood or omitted. In many contexts, it functions similarly to “is connected” or “is turned on.”

Related forms and terminology: The active counterpart is kytkeä (to connect, to switch on). The noun kytkentä denotes a connection or linkage, and the adjective kytketty means connected. In technical language, phrases like kytketään päälle (is turned on) or kytketään verkkoon (is connected to the network) are common.

Examples:

- Laite kytketään päälle virtakytkimellä.

- Johtimet kytketään toisiinsa liittimillä.