leveä

Leveä is a Finnish adjective meaning wide or broad. It describes objects or spaces that have substantial width, such as a leveä tie (a wide road), a leveä hymy (a broad smile), or leveä kehä (a broad ring). The term can also be used metaphorically to indicate openness or breadth, for example leveä näkökulma (a broad perspective) or leveä maasto (open terrain).

As a Finnish adjective, leveä agrees with the noun it modifies in number and case. It appears in the positive form as leveä, with plural leveät, and takes appropriate endings in different cases (for example leveän talon for “the house’s wide/width” in genitive). The comparative form is leveämpi and the superlative form is levein, following standard Finnish adjective patterns.

Leveä is a native Finnish word linked to the noun leveys, meaning width. It belongs to the group of -ä adjectives and is common in everyday language, media, and literature. It is contrasted with kapea, meaning narrow, and with laaja, meaning broad in a more general or abstract sense.

See also: Laaja, Kapea, Leveys, Width.