vyöryvät

Vyöryvät is a Finnish verb form meaning “they slide” or “they avalanche.” It is the third-person plural present indicative form of the verb vyöryä, which means to slide, roll down, or avalanche, especially involving soil, rock, or snow moving downslope under gravity. The infinitive vyöryä covers rapid downslope movement and is used in geological, meteorological, and everyday contexts.

Morphology and conjugation: The present tense stem is vyöry-, and the third-person plural present ends with -vät, yielding vyöryvät. The simple past, third-person plural, is vyöryivät. The past participle is vyörynyt, used with olla to form perfect tenses (esimerkiksi olen vyörynyt = I have slid). Vyöryä belongs to the group of Finnish -ä verbs and follows standard conjugation patterns for that class.

Usage: In neutral, descriptive writing, vyöryvät appears when describing ongoing or recurrent movement of material downslope. It is common in geotechnical reports, hazard assessments, and news coverage of natural hazards. It can also appear in figurative language to describe a sequence of events or items moving rapidly, although in practice the literal sense is more typical.

Examples: Kivet vyöryvät rinteeltä. Lumivyöryt vyöryvät laaksoon rankkasateen jälkeen. A translation for context: “The rocks slide down from the slope.” “Avalanches slide into the valley after heavy rain.” The term is primarily used in factual, non-creative writing and remains a neutral descriptor of motion.