osoititte

Osoititte is a Finnish verb form used to express a past action in the second person plural. It is the past tense or imperfect indicative form of the verb osoittaa, meaning to point out, indicate, or show. In Finnish, forms of a verb change to reflect person and number, and osoititte marks that you all performed the action in the past.

Morphology and formation: Osoititte is created from the stem osoita- with the past tense marker i- and the personal ending -tte, which signals second-person plural. This form sits in the periphrastic system of Finnish conjugation alongside other person-number combinations such as osoitin (I indicated), osoitit (you indicated, singular), osoitti (he/she indicated), osoimme (we indicated), and osoittivat (they indicated).

Usage and nuance: The form is used in both spoken and written Finnish to describe that a group of people indicated or pointed out something at a past time. It can appear in narrative recounting, explanations, or reported speech. Because Finnish verbs carry tense and person within their endings, osoititte often functions without auxiliary verbs in past-tense sentences.

Related forms: Other person/number past forms of osoittaa include osoitin (I indicated), osoitit (you indicated, singular), osoitti (he/she indicated), osoimme (we indicated), and osoittivat (they indicated). These forms illustrate how Finnish encodes person, number, and tense within a single verb, without separate helping verbs.

See also: Finnish grammar, verb conjugation, past tense in Finnish.