peitti

Peitti is the third-person singular past tense form of the Finnish verb peittää, meaning to cover or to conceal. It describes a completed action in which someone or something covered or obscured another object or item. As a transitive verb, peittää takes a direct object, with the covering expressed through additional words such as a cloth, material, or other covering.

Usage and examples:

- Hän peitti pöydän liinalla. (He/She covered the table with a cloth.)

- Hän peitti totuuden. (He/She concealed the truth.)

These examples illustrate both a literal covering and a figurative concealment, which is common in Finnish for expressing concealment, hiding, or masking information or appearances.

Grammatical notes:

- Peitti functions as a past-tense form for third person singular. Other persons and tenses use different forms of peittää (for example, peitin for “I covered,” peittivät for “they covered”).

- Peittää is the infinitive; peitti is one of its past forms. The word is not typically used as a standalone noun in standard Finnish.

Related terms:

- peittää (to cover)

- peittäminen (covering, the act of covering)

- peitteinen (covered, cloaked in some contexts)

In summary, peitti is a common Finnish verb form used to indicate that the act of covering or concealing was completed by a subject, with both literal and metaphorical applications.