vauhdittivat

Vauhdittivat is a Finnish verb form meaning “they accelerated” or “they sped up,” and it is the past tense, third-person plural form of the transitive causative verb vauhtittaa. The verb expresses causing something to move faster or to become faster.

The base concept behind vauhtittaa is to bring about an increase in speed for a process, object, or action. In Finnish, it conveys that an agent or agents caused another entity to go faster, rather than simply performing the action themselves. Because vauhtittaa is a transitive verb, it typically takes a direct object that denotes what is being accelerated.

Usage notes: Vauhdittivat is used when the subject is plural. It describes actions applied to a tangible or intangible object, such as a machine, process, or policy, that lead to a faster outcome. It can appear in various domains, including engineering, economics, and politics, wherever there is an explicit speeding up of something.

Examples:

- Ne vauhdittivat prosessin. (They accelerated the process.)

- Hallituksen toimet vauhdittivat lainsäädäntöä. (The government’s actions accelerated the legislation.)

Related forms include the infinitive vauhtittaa (to accelerate) and other tense forms of vauhtittaa, such as the present or future forms, used to describe ongoing or upcoming speeding up. The term is commonly found in technical, administrative, and journalistic Finnish when describing the effect of actions on speed or pace.