nopeuttavat

Nopeuttavat is the present tense, third-person plural form of the Finnish verb nopeuttaa, which means to speed up or to accelerate. As a finite verb, nopeasti indicates an action performed by multiple subjects. The dictionary base form is nopeuttaa (to speed up), with nopeuttavat describing “they speed up.”

Etymology and form: The verb is causative, derived from the root speed or velocity concept associated with the noun nopeus (speed). In present tense, Finnish verbs of this class typically take the ending -vat for the third-person plural, yielding nopeuttavat. Other forms include nopeutan (I speed up), nopeutat (you speed up), and nopeuttaa (he/she/it speeds up).

Usage: Nopeuttavat appears in sentences where multiple actors contribute to increasing speed or acceleration of a process. Examples: Laitteet nopeuttavat tuotantoa. (The devices speed up production.) Tutkijat nopeuttavat kehitystä käyttämällä uutta menetelmää. (Researchers accelerate development by using a new method.) The word is common in technical, business, and scientific Finnish, and can describe speeding up processes, schedules, or outcomes.

Related terms: A close synonym is kiihdyttää, which also means to accelerate but can carry nuances of more abrupt or energetic speeding up. Forms of the verb occur across tenses and voices, with nopeuttaa serving as the base and nopeuttavat as one of its common tense forms.

Summary: Nopeuttavat is a standard Finnish verb form denoting that a plural subject speeds up something, used across contexts to describe acceleration of processes, projects, or mechanisms.