näkisivät

Näkisivät is the third-person plural present conditional form of the Finnish verb nähdä (to see). In Finnish, the present conditional expresses hypothetical or contingent action and is formed with the conditional marker -isi- plus personal endings. For the verb nähdä, the present conditional paradigm is: minä näkisin, sinä näkisit, hän näkisi, me näkisimme, te näkisitte, he näkisivät. Thus näkisivät translates to “they would see.”

Usage of näkisivät centers on hypothetical or uncertain outcomes, often in clauses introduced by jos (if) or in conditional statements. It is common in both written and spoken Finnish when describing what would happen under certain conditions. For example, if they saw something, they would react: Jos he näkisivät tämän tilanteen, he tekisivät päätöksen. Another example as a question: Näkisivätkö he meidät? (Would they see us?)

Phonology and orthography are straightforward in standard Finnish, with the form containing the vowel ä and the consonant cluster -ks- consistent with other -isi- conjugations. Nämä muotoja (such forms) are part of a broader system of konditionaali that includes forms like näkisin, näkisit, näkisi, näkisisimme, näkisitte, and näkisivät for different persons.

See also: nähdä, konditionaali (present), Finnish verb conjugation.