metsästämme

Metsästämme is the first-person plural present indicative form of the Finnish verb metsästää, meaning "we hunt." It functions as a finite verb that states hunting activity carried out by the speaker together with others. The form is created by adding the 1st person plural ending -mme to the verb stem metsäst-.

In typical usage, metsästämme appears in clauses where the subject is understood to be “we.” It can stand alone as a complete sentence in informal speech, or appear in a larger sentence with a direct object in the partitive or accusative, for example: Metsästämme peuraa joka syksy. This translates to "We hunt deer every autumn." The phrase emphasizes the activity of the group rather than an ongoing habit expressed with a separate adverbial phrase.

Context and related forms. Metsästää is part of a broader family of hunting-related terms in Finnish, including metsästys (hunting as an activity or practice) and metsänkäyttäjä (a hunter, in some contexts). The form metsästämme contrasts with other persons and tenses, such as metsästän (I hunt) for the first person singular and metsästämme in past contexts when combined with appropriate auxiliary verbs.

Overall, metsästämme is a common, grammatically essential form for expressing a group activity of hunting in Finnish, reflecting the language’s use of person and number endings to convey subject information.