tekivät

Tekivät is a Finnish verb form. It is the past tense (imperfect) third-person plural form of the verb tehdä/tehdä, meaning "to do" or "to make." In English it corresponds to "they did" or "they made," depending on the context.

Form and usage

In Finnish, tekivät is used to describe actions completed by multiple subjects in the past. It is the plural counterpart to tein (I did), teit (you did), teki (he/she/it did), teimme (we did), and teitte (you all did). The form tekivät thus marks past tense for a group subject.

Examples

- He tekivät monia virheitä. — They made many mistakes.

- He tekivät päätöksen aloittaa projektin. — They made the decision to start the project.

- Porukka teki työnsä loppuun. — The group finished their work.

Usage notes

Tekivät is common in narrative and descriptive past contexts. The meaning of tekivät depends on the accompanying object or clause, since tehdä/tehdä is a broad verb meaning both “to do” and “to make.” In spoken Finnish, tense and aspect are often inferred from context, and tekivät is understood as a completed action by multiple subjects.

Related forms

The verb tener forms include tein, teit, teki, teimme, teitte, tekivät. The root verb is tehdä/tehdä, which appears in many derived forms and compounds, making it one of Finnish’s core irregular-like verbs in past tense paradigms.

See also

Tehdä; Finnish verb conjugation; Finnish grammar.