pysähtyit

Pysähtyit is a Finnish verb form that is most commonly described as the second-person singular past tense of the verb pysähtyä, meaning “to stop” or “to come to a stop.” In standard Finnish, the familiar past tense form for you is pysähdyit; pysähtyit is not generally listed as the normative form in dictionaries and is often considered a misspelling or nonstandard variant.

Usage and notes

The form would be used in direct address to describe that the listener stopped at a past time. Because pysähdyit is the standard form, pysähtyit appears mainly in informal writing, casual speech, or as a possible error in transcription or text input. In formal writing or careful language use, pysähdyit would typically be corrected to pysähdyit.

Relation to other forms

Pysähtyä is a verb with a typical set of personal endings in the past tense: minä pysähdyin (I stopped), sinä pysähdyit (you stopped), hän pysähtyi (he/she stopped), me pysähdyimme (we stopped), te pysähdyitte (you all stopped), he pysähtyivät (they stopped). The form pysähdyit thus represents the standard pattern; pysähtyit is a nonstandard variant related to orthographic or phonetic variation.

Etymology

The word is formed from the verb pysähtyä, with typical past-tense endings applied to the second-person singular.

See also

Pysähdyin, pysähdyit, pysähtyi, pysähdyttävä.