veistetään
Veistetään is a Finnish verb form that comes from veistää, meaning to sculpt or to carve. It is the present passive tense, used to indicate that something is being sculpted without naming who is doing the sculpting. In translations, it often corresponds to “is being sculpted” or, in some contexts, a general statement like “is sculpted.”
Grammatical notes: In Finnish, the passive voice (such as veistetään) is impersonal and does not specify the
Usage: Veistetään commonly appears in discussions of sculpture, monuments, architectural ornament, and craft processes. It is
- Patsas veistetään kaupungin keskustaan. (A statue is being sculpted in the city center.)
- Reliefit veistetään tilauksesta. (Reliefs are being sculpted on commission.)
- Kiveen veistetään koristekuva. (A decorative image is being sculpted into the stone.)
Related forms: veistää (active form “to sculpt”), veistetty (sculpted, past passive), veistettävä (to be sculpted, participial