peitimme

Peitimme is a Finnish verb form meaning "we covered" or "we hid," functioning as the first-person plural past tense of the verb peittää. The infinitive peittää means to cover, conceal, or overlay. The form peitimme appears in the indicative mood to describe completed actions performed by a group in the past.

Morphology and usage: In Finnish, the suffix -imme marks the first-person plural past tense. The stem is peit-, and the ending -imme attaches to yield peitimme. The corresponding present tense form is peitämme ("we cover"), while the singular past is peitin ("I covered"). Peitimme can refer to physical covering, such as placing a cloth over an object, or to concealment, such as hiding information or truth.

Examples: Me peitimme pöydän liinalla. We covered the table with a cloth. Me peitimme totuuden. We hid the truth. These examples illustrate both literal and figurative uses of the verb form.

Related forms and notes: Peitimme is part of the larger class of Finnish verbs derived from peittää. Other related forms include peitän (I cover), peitämme (we cover, present), and peitin (I covered). The word should be distinguished from homographs that may appear in different languages, and from proper nouns that could resemble it in capitalized form at sentence starts.

See also: peittää, Finnish verbs, Finnish grammar.