ravistivat

Ravistaa is a Finnish verb meaning "to shake" or "to rattle." The form ravistivat is the finite past tense in the third-person plural, used when the subject performed the action of shaking something. The corresponding singular past tense is ravisti, and the present tense forms include ravistelee ("shakes") and ravistelevat ("shake").

As a transitive verb, ravistaa normally takes a direct object—the thing that is shaken. A common literal example is Linnut ravistivat oksaa, meaning "The birds shook the branch."

The word is related to the noun ravistus, meaning a shake or jolt, and is built from the verb root ravist- with standard Finnish conjugation patterns. In usage, ravistaa can also appear in figurative senses such as waking someone up or dispelling doubts, though these uses are less common than the physical sense.

In dictionaries, ravistaa is presented as a regular Finnish verb of its class, with multiple forms used across tenses and moods. It appears frequently in everyday speech and in descriptive or narrative writing.