nopeuttivat

Nopeuttivat is the past tense form of the Finnish verb nopeuttaa, meaning to speed up or to accelerate. It is used to describe actions that were completed in the past by multiple subjects. As a finite verb form, it reflects person, number, and tense, with the third-person plural subject implied.

Morphology and usage are characteristic of Finnish verbal conjugation. The base verb is nopeuttaa, and the past tense third-person plural form is produced by adding the -ivat ending to the appropriate stem, yielding nopeuttivat. This form is common in narrative and descriptive contexts where a group performed the acceleration of some process or activity.

Examples:

- He nopeuttivat projektin aikataulua. (They accelerated the project schedule.)

- Opettajat nopeuttivat kokeen valmistelua. (The teachers accelerated the preparation of the exam.)

- Kehitystiimit nopeuttivat ohjelmiston julkaisua. (The development teams accelerated the software release.)

In usage, nopeuttivat can describe speeding up processes, production lines, schedules, or research timelines. It often appears in business, technology, and academic reporting, where multiple agents or groups implement measures to shorten durations or improve timing. The form is primarily encountered in written and formal speech, but it also appears in everyday Finnish when recounting past actions by several actors.