vaihdettiin
Vaihdettiin is the passive past tense form of the Finnish verb vaihtaa, meaning to change, switch, or replace. It expresses that something was changed by someone or something, with the agent left unspecified. The form is commonly used when the doer is unknown, unimportant, or general, focusing on the occurrence of the action itself.
In Finnish, the passive past is marked with the ending -tiin. Vaihdettiin does not encode a specific
- Auton öljyt vaihdettiin viime viikolla. (The car’s oil was changed last week.)
- Paristo vaihdettiin uuteen. (The battery was replaced with a new one.)
- Kellon ranneke vaihdettiin. (The watch band was changed.)
Vaihdettiin can also appear in contexts where multiple items are involved, by using a plural subject, for
Related forms include the present passive vaihdetaan (is/are changed) and the active forms such as vaihtaa (to