täyttivät

Täyttivät is a Finnish verb form from the verb täyttää, meaning to fill, fill up, or fulfill. In Finnish grammar, täyttivät is the third-person plural past tense form (imperfect indicative) of täyttää, used to describe a completed action by “they.” The same verb can mean different kinds of filling: physically filling a container, filling out a form, or fulfilling a requirement.

Common uses include:

- Physical filling: He täyttivät lasin vedellä. They filled the glass with water.

- Completing forms or documents: He täyttivät lomakkeet huolellisesti. They filled out the forms carefully.

- Fulfilling a task or requirement: He täyttivät tehtävän ohjeiden mukaan. They fulfilled the task according to the instructions.

Morphology and related forms:

- Present tense plural: täyttävät (they fill)

- Past tense plural: täyttivät (they filled)

- Negative past: eivät täyttäneet (they did not fill)

- Related forms include infinitive täyttää (to fill), participle täyttänyt (having filled)

Etymology:

The verb is built from the root täy- connected with fullness, with the common Finnish verb-derivation suffix -ttää that marks transitivity and causativity. The meaning centers on causing something to become full or complete.

In usage, täyttivät tends to appear in narratives or reports describing past actions by multiple subjects. It is a regular, widely used verb form in Finnish and is commonly encountered in everyday language, official writing, and literature alike.