kävitte

Kävitte is the second-person plural past tense form of the Finnish verb käydä, meaning to go, visit, or attend. It is used when speaking about actions that involve more than one person in the past, corresponding to “you (all) went” or “you (all) visited” in English. Käydä is a common verb with a range of meanings, including visiting places, attending events, or performing recurring actions.

In standard Finnish, the past tense forms for the second person plural are kinn for the verb käydä: kävin (I went), kävit (you went, singular you), kävi (he/she went), kävimme (we went), kävitte (you went, plural you), kävivät (they went). Thus, the form you asked about, kävitte, is the correct past plural form. Note the stem change from käy- in the present and singular forms to käv- in the past plural form.

Examples of use include: Kävittekö eilen kahvilassa? (Did you go to the cafe yesterday?), Kävitte kurssilla viime viikolla. (You attended the course last week.) The meaning depends on context, as käydä can also imply frequenting or attending events rather than a single act of going somewhere.

Etymology and morphology: käydä belongs to a class of Finnish verbs with vowel alternation between present and past stems (käy- vs käv-). The past tense endings vary by person and number, producing forms such as kävin, kävit, kävi, kävimme, kävitte, kävivät. Käytettävä muoto riippuu kuulijajoukosta.

See also: käydä, kävellä, Finnish verb conjugation.