menetyvät

Menetyvät is a Finnish verb form that represents the present tense, third-person plural. It is derived from the verb menetyä, which conveys the idea of losing or suffering a loss. The form is used when the subject is plural and is performing the action of losing something or becoming lost. In everyday language it can describe literal loss of objects as well as more figurative losses such as lost opportunities, lost hopes, or a deteriorating situation.

In terms of morphology, menetyvät shows the typical pattern of a Finnish verb in the third-person plural present tense, with the stem attributed to menety- and the plural ending -vät. This form sits within the broader semantic field related to loss, alongside related words such as menetys (loss) and the verb menetää or menetyä, which share the same root family.

Usage notes include that menetyvät can appear in a variety of syntactic constructions depending on what is being lost and who the subject is. The nuance between literal and figurative loss is common in Finnish, and the verb often co-occurs with direct or indirect objects to specify what is being lost. It is related to other forms in the same verb group and to passive constructions such as menetetään, which express a loss that occurs to the subject externally or is experienced in a passive voice.