levitetään

Levitetään is the present passive form of the Finnish verb levittää, meaning to spread or disseminate. In this form the actor is not specified, making it suitable for general statements about processes, information, or phenomena. It represents third-person singular in the present tense.

Grammatical notes: The Finnish passive is commonly used to present facts, instructions, or descriptions without naming who performs the action. Levitetään can take objects such as information, diseases, rumors, or innovations, signaling that they are being spread. The related noun forms include levittäminen (the act of spreading) and levittäjä (a spreader or disseminator). The passive form may appear in different tenses or moods, for example levitettiin (was spread) or levittäisi (would spread), depending on the context.

Usage contexts: Levitetään appears frequently in media, research, health communication, and logistics when describing dissemination processes. It is often preferred over active constructions when the actor is unknown, irrelevant, or intentionally omitted. The phrase can refer to spreading ideas, data, products, or pathogens, among other things.

Examples:

- Tietoa levitetään laajasti yleisön keskuudessa. (Information is spread widely among the public.)

- Uutiset levitetään nopeasti sosiaaliseen mediaan. (News are spread quickly on social media.)

- Tauti levitetään kosketuksen tai pisaroiden välityksellä. (The disease is spread through contact or droplets.)

See also: levittää, levittäminen, levittäjä.