oleskellaan
Oleskellaan is a Finnish verb form derived from oleskella, meaning to stay, linger, or spend time idly in one place. The form is used in colloquial Finnish to propose that a group stays for a while rather than leaving immediately. In practice, it functions as an informal invitation or suggestion roughly equivalent to “let’s stay” or “let’s linger here for a moment.”
The expression is common in spoken language and in casual online communication, such as text messages and
Grammatical note: oleskellaan is a finite form used with an implicit first-person plural subject, conveying a
- Oleskellaan tässä vähän. (Let’s stay here for a moment.)
- Oleskellaan vielä hetki ennen kuin lähdetään. (Let’s linger a bit longer before we go.)
Related terms include oleskelu, the noun for the act of staying or lingering, and oleskella, the verb