menevät

Menevät is a Finnish verb form derived from mennä, meaning "to go." It is the present tense, third-person plural form and corresponds to English "they go" or "they are going." It is used when the subject is plural and performing the action of going. For example: He menevät kotiin. They go home.

In spelling and grammar, menevät carries the ending -vät, which marks the third-person plural present tense in Finnish and follows vowel harmony (the form appears as -vat or -vät depending on the stem’s vowels). The form menevät uses the front-vowel variant -vät.

Menevät belongs to a set of present tense forms of the same verb: minä menen, sinä menet, hän menee, me menemme, te menette, he menevät. These forms illustrate how the verb conjugates across persons and numbers in the present tense. Finnish verbs display relatively regular patterns, and mennä is a common, irregular-looking example at the surface due to vowel harmony and stem alternations, but it follows the standard present-tense paradigm for third-person plural.

Usage notes: menevät is typically used without an explicit subject when the subject is clear from context, as is common in Finnish. It can appear in simple statements, questions, and subordinate clauses, and it contrasts with singular forms such as hän menee (he/she goes) or minä menen (I go).