myöhästymme

Myöhästymme is the present tense, first-person plural form of the Finnish verb myöhästyä, meaning to be late or to experience a delay. In English, it corresponds to “we are late” or “we become late.” As a finite verb form, it contains the subject information (we) and can stand as the main predicate in a clause.

Linguistic notes: myöhästyä is intransitive and describes lateness or delay affecting people or events. The related noun form is myöhästyminen, which denotes lateness or a delay as a concept. Adjectival and adverbial forms include myöhäinen (late) and myöhään (late at a certain time). The present form myöhästymme uses the -mme ending to mark 1st person plural, a pattern seen with other Finnish verbs in the present tense.

Usage: myöhästymme is used to describe a group including the speaker that is late in the present moment or in ongoing situations. In many contexts, Finns omit the subject pronoun because the verb ending already signals the subject; including me (we) emphasizes the group. A typical usage would be in a sentence about a current delay or repeated lateness, for example, “Me myöhästymme usein, kun bussit ovat myöhässä,” meaning “We are often late when the buses are delayed.”

See also: myöhästyä, myöhästyminen, myöhäinen, myöhään.