tekevät

Tekevät is the third-person plural present indicative form of the Finnish verb tehdä, meaning to do or to make. It is used when the subject is they or a plural noun and denotes actions such as making, performing, or carrying out activities. In ordinary speech, tekevät appears in statements about routines, plans, or ongoing actions.

Morphology and forms

The infinitive of the verb is tehdä. In present tense the paradigms are: minä teen, sinä teet, hän tekee, me teemme, teette, he tekevät. The ending -vät marks the third-person plural. The stem commonly surfaces as tee-, and the form combines this stem with the plural present ending to convey “they do/make.”

Usage

Tekevät functions across a wide range of contexts. Examples include:

- He tekevät töitä joka päivä. (They work every day.)

- Miksi he tekevät tämän? (Why are they doing this?)

Finnish has no separate progressive aspect in standard tense, so tekevät can express both habitual and ongoing actions depending on context.

Notes

Tekevät is a frequent, everyday verb form essential to basic Finnish. Like other present-tense forms of tehdä, it is used with both animate and inanimate subjects and does not take a separate auxiliary for simple present statements.

See also

Finnish verbs; Finnish grammar; Conjugation of tehdä.