pyörivät

Pyörivät is a Finnish term that primarily appears in two grammatical roles: as the third-person plural present tense form of the verb pyöriä and as the plural present active participle form of the adjective pyörivä. The verb pyöriä means to rotate, spin, or revolve, and its present tense plural form signals that the subject is plural. The participial form pyörivät is used attributively before plural nouns to describe ongoing rotating or spinning objects, or can stand as a predicate adjective with a plural subject.

In everyday language, pyörivät is common in descriptions of mechanical motion, wheels, rotors, or any objects in circular motion. For example, “Koneet pyörivät aamusta iltaan” translates to “The machines have been running/rotating from morning to night.” As a participle, it can appear in phrases like “pyörivät koneet” meaning “rotating machines.”

Etymology traces pyörivät to the verb pyöriä, which is derived from the Finnish root pyör- meaning to turn or revolve. The form also illustrates Finnish’s agreement system, where the participle inflects to match the noun it modifies in number and case (for example, pyörivät koneet = rotating machines).

Notes and related forms:

- Pyöriä: the base verb meaning to spin or revolve.

- Pyörivä: the singular present active participle (rotating), with pyörivät as its plural form.

- Related terms include words for rotation and circular motion, such as kierto and pyöriminen.

See also: Finnish grammar, pyöriä, pyörivä, rotation concepts in technical contexts.