säilytimme

Säilytimme is a Finnish verb form meaning “we preserved” or “we kept.” It is the first-person plural past tense of the verb säilyttää, which translates to keep, preserve, or store. The infinitive säilyttää covers ideas from physical preservation to the retention of information or maintaining a state.

Morphology and form: Säilytimme is built on the verb root säilyt-, plus the -tim- marker for the past tense and the personal ending -me indicating “we.” Related forms include säilytin (I preserved), säilytit (you preserved), säilytti (he/she preserved), säilytimme (we preserved), and säilyttivät (they preserved). The form is used in narratives or reports to describe an action completed in the past by the speaker and others.

Usage: Säilytimme is used when describing a past act of storing or preserving carried out by the speaker together with others. It often appears with time references or contextual clues about past events. Examples: Me säilytimme ruokatarvikkeet jääkaapissa koko viikon. Me säilytimme ne tallessa varastossa. Sopimuksen mukaan me säilytimme asiakirjat arkistossa. The negative past would typically be formed with emme säilyttäneet.

Notes: Säilytimme is a finite verb form and is not used as a noun. The related noun for preservation or storage is säilytys, and the process of keeping is expressed by säilyttäminen. Finnish verb forms for tense and mood are highly agglutinative, with endings changing to reflect person, number, and time.