lensivät

Lensivät is Finnish and represents the past tense form of the verb lentää, meaning “they flew.” It is the third-person plural imperfect (past) conjugation, used to describe a flight performed by multiple subjects. The corresponding singular past tense is lensi (he/she flew). The verb lentää is intransitive, so lensivät normally describes movement through the air by beings or machines that can fly, or it can be used figuratively.

Morphology and usage notes: Lensivät is formed from the stem lens- with the past plural suffix -ivät. Other persons in the past tense use forms such as lensin (I flew), lensit (you flew), lensimme (we flew), and lensitte (you all flew). The form is typical for narratives describing past events involving flight.

Examples:

- Linnut lensivät taivaalla. (The birds flew in the sky.)

- Lentokoneet lensivät Helsingin yllä. (The airplanes flew over Helsinki.)

- Ajatukset lensivät ympäri huoneen, ennen kuin ne rauhoittuivat. (The thoughts flew around the room before settling down.)

See also: lentää, lentäminen, Finnish verb conjugation. The word is primarily used for physical flight, but it can also convey rapid movement or ideation in a figurative sense, as in metaphorical flights of fancy or thoughts.