toivoimme

Toivoimme is the past tense form of the Finnish verb toivoa, which means "to hope." The word literally translates to "we hoped" and is used to express a collective desire or expectation that something has been desired or wished for by a group of speakers. The suffix -imme marks first‑person plural past tense in Finnish.

As a verb form, toivoimme is part of a regular conjugation pattern found in most Finnish verbs ending in -o in the infinitive. For example, toivoa → toivoin (I hope) → toivoimme (we hoped), toivoit (you hope), toivoi (he/she/it hopes), and toivoivat (they hope). The conjugation is consistent across many regular verbs, such as katsoa (to look) with katsoimme (we looked). Because Finnish does not use auxiliary verbs for tense, the past tense is expressed solely by the verb ending.

The usage of toivoimme appears frequently in narrative contexts, with sentences such as "Me toivoimme, että metsä olisi valettua" (We hoped that the forest would have been cut). It can also be used in formal writing, speeches, or literary commentary to reflect collective desires in the past, as in discussing historical movements or social aspirations.

In Finnish literature and media, toivoimme often signals a change from expectation to disappointment or that an outcome was not achieved. The form is also linked to related constructs such as toivon ("my hope") and toivoen ("in hope of"). In sum, toivoimme is a straightforward, grammatically regular expression of collective past hope in the Finnish language.