pyyhkitään

Pyhkitään is a Finnish word that belongs to the group of Finnish compound verbs, which consist of a verb and a preposition or a conjunction. The word is composed of the verb "pyhki" (to be empty or to empty) and the action phrase "si" (from). Therefore, its most common translation to English is "to empty out" or "to be empty out".

In Finnish grammar, verb-preposition combinations like pyhkitään are often used to express actions that take place on the way out or while leaving something. For instance, the sentence "huone pyhkitään" would translate to "the room is being emptied" or "the room is being emptied out", indicating that the room is currently being cleared of its contents.

Pyhkitään is a relatively common verb in Finnish language, especially in informal communication and everyday conversations. This might make it useful when explaining actions that are taking place in stages or directions towards something else.

In addition to intransitive forms like "pyhkitään", the verb has an intransitive form "pyhki" indicating emptying, and transitive forms "pyhkitse" and "pyhkitonse" father and mother language speaker are more familiar with, indicating empty-out an object or box.

Meanwhile, the compound verb is also purely derived from other forms of "huoneissa pyöritään".