vastasit

Vastasit is a Finnish verb form meaning “you answered.” It is the second-person singular past tense of the verb vastata, which means to answer or respond. The form is used when the subject is the person being addressed in the past.

Morphology and related forms: Vastasit is created from the infinitive vastata by adding the past tense ending for the second person singular. The corresponding forms include vastasin (I answered) and vastasi (he/she answered). The second-person plural past is vastasitte (you all answered). The present tense form is vastaat (you answer), and the conditional mood has forms such as vastaisin (I would answer) and vastaisit (you would answer).

Usage: Vastasit appears in both spoken and written Finnish to indicate a past action performed by the addressee. It can stand with or without an explicit subject pronoun, since Finnish verb endings encode the person and tense. In questions, it appears in forms like Vastasitko? “Did you answer?”

Etymology: The form derives from vastata, the root vast- sharing cognates with related Finnic verbs meaning to answer, with the standard Finnish -ta infinitive and conjugation patterns.

See also: vastata, vastaus, Finnish verb conjugation.