palasivat

Palasivat is a Finnish verb form meaning "they returned." It is the third-person plural past tense of the verb palata, which means to return or come back. In Finnish, the past tense for verbs of the -a/-ä class is formed with the ending -ivat for the third-person plural, producing palasivat. Other forms of palata in the past tense include palasin (I returned), palasit (you returned), palasi (he/she returned), palasimme (we returned), and palasitte (you all returned).

Palasivat is used in narratives, news reports, and everyday speech to describe a completed action in the past involving multiple subjects. It does not mark aspect beyond the simple past; Finnish expresses aspect mainly through context rather than verb morphology in this tense.

Example sentences:

- He palasivat kotiin. They returned home.

- He palasivat kaupungista eilen. They returned from the city yesterday.

Related forms include palasin, palasit, palasi, palasimme, and palasitte, which illustrate how the same verb is conjugated across different persons and numbers. The verb palata is the common base, and palasivat is just one inflected form used for plural subjects in the past tense. See also: palata, Finnish verb conjugation, Finnish grammar.