tehdään

Tehdään is the present passive form of the Finnish verb tehdä, meaning "to do" or "to make." In this form the action is described without naming the doer, emphasizing the process or result rather than who performs the action. As a present passive, tehdään translates roughly to "is done" or "are done," depending on context, and it is a common grammatical tool in everyday Finnish.

The form is widely used in instructions, recipes, and general statements where the subject is unspecified. For example, "Ruoka tehdään tuoreista aineksista" means "The food is made from fresh ingredients," and "Tehtäköön näin" or "Tehdään näin" can be used to suggest a procedure, translating to "Let’s do it this way" or "We do it like this." The passive construction allows speakers to present procedures or outcomes without attributing them to a specific person or group, which is a frequent feature in manuals, guides, and explanatory text.

In Finnish grammar, tehdään is part of a broader passive paradigm that includes tense and aspect variations such as tehtiin (past passive) and tehdään (present passive). It contrasts with active forms like teemme (we do) and teet (you do). Understanding tehdään helps in interpreting sentences where the focus is on the action or result rather than the actor, which is a common pattern in Finnish writing and instruction.