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Vedä is the second-person singular imperative form of the Finnish verb vetää, meaning to pull, draw, or haul. It is used to give a direct command to one person, and can refer to physical actions such as pulling a rope or to figurative actions like drawing a conclusion or taking a breath.

The verb vetää has the infinitive vetää and, in the imperative, forms such as vedä (2nd person singular) and vetäkää (2nd person plural). The negative imperative is älä vedä. In the present tense the forms are minä vedän, sinä vedät, hän vetää, we, and so on. The verb also has participles, for example vetänyt (perfect participle) and vetävä (present active participle).

Usage notes: Vedä is common in daily speech when giving directions or requests involving pulling or drawing. It can be used literally, as in the command to pull a rope: Vedä köysi tiukasti. It can also be used more broadly, including phrases like Vedä henkeä sisään (take a breath) or in contexts like drawing a conclusion, as in Vedä johtopäätös (draw a conclusion). The breadth of meaning reflects vetää’s core sense of bringing something toward oneself or making something happen by pulling.

Etymology and related forms: Vedä derives from the Finnic root vetä-, found in related languages such as Estonian vedama, meaning to pull or draw. The verb forms evolve with standard Finnish conjugation patterns, yielding related forms like vetävä (pulling), vedän (I pull), and vedämme (we pull). The imperative vedä remains a concise, versatile directive in Finnish.