pitämään
Pitämään is a Finnish verb form derived from the verb pitää, meaning to hold, to keep, or to maintain. In addition to its literal sense of physical possession or retention, pitämään functions across a broad range of meanings, including obligation, preference, and habitual action. The form pitämään is commonly encountered as a non-finite or infinitive-like variant used in compound expressions and subordinate clauses.
Etymology and cognates: Pitää belongs to a core set of Finnic verbs with a long-standing semantic field
Common meanings and usages: As a basic verb, pitää covers physical holding and keeping something in a
Grammar overview: Pitää has common present tense forms like pidän, pidät, pitää, pidämme, pidätte, pitävät, with
See also: Finnish verb conjugation, Finnish grammar, idioms with pitää.
The entry highlights the central role of pitämään as the flexible, high-frequency form of pitää, underpinning