täydentävät

Täydentävät is a Finnish verb form meaning to supplement or complete. It is the present tense, third-person plural form of the verb täydentää. The basic sense is to add something that makes a whole more complete, to fill gaps, or to augment information, data, or materials.

In usage, täydentävät appears across many contexts, such as research, statistics, administration, and education. Examples: "Uudet luvut täydentävät aiempia tilastoja," meaning the new figures supplement the earlier statistics. "Kyselyn vastaukset täydentävät toisiaan" indicates that the responses complement each other. In regulatory or policy language, it can describe provisions that supplement existing rules, as in "uudet määräykset täydentävät nykyistä lainsäädäntöä."

Etymology and related forms: The verb comes from the root täy-, related to täysi meaning full. Related nouns include täydennys (a supplement, addition) and the verbal noun täydennääminen or täydennittäminen, referring to the act of supplementing. The adjective form täydentävä means supplementary or additional and is used to describe things that serve to complete.

Notes: Täydentävät is strictly a finite verb form and should not be confused with the participial or adjectival forms, such as täydentävä (supplementary). The term is common in formal writing, especially in contexts dealing with data, documentation, and regulatory texts.