lähettääkö

Lähettäkää is Finnish grammar used as the second-person plural imperative form of the verb lähettää, meaning to send. It is issued to a group of people or to a formal audience when giving a direct instruction or request to perform the action of sending something.

Morphology and usage notes: The form is built on the stem lähet- of the infinitive lähettää and carries the plural imperative ending -kää, a pattern common to Finnish 2nd person plural imperatives such as kirjoittakaa and luetkaa. The pronunciation reflects phonological assimilation, with the stem sandwiched by the imperative ending to yield lähettäkää. In negative commands, Finnish typically uses a separate construction such as älkää lähettäkö (don’t send), rather than a simple negative of lähettäkää.

Typical contexts: Lähettäkää is common in written instructions, work emails, and cooperative requests where a group is addressed. It is appropriate in neutral to formal registers and is widely understood in everyday Finnish. The form allows a speaker to specify the recipients (e.g., lähettäkää se meille, please send it to us) and can be combined with time or condition phrases (e.g., lähettäkää se huomenna).

See also: Other imperative forms in Finnish, including single–person commands (lähde, lähetä) and the 3rd-person jussive forms (lähettäköön) used in more formal or indirect commands. The imperative system in Finnish relies on mood markers rather than subject pronouns, so lähetäkää is typically accompanied by a clear addressee and context rather than explicit “you.”