väittämään
Väittämään is the -maan infinitive form of the Finnish verb väittää, meaning to claim or to assert. In everyday language the base form väittää is more common, but väittämään appears in non-finite constructions and in more formal or written contexts. The verb väittää itself denotes the act of asserting or maintaining that something is true, often in the face of opposition or evidence.
Morphology and related forms include the noun väittäminen (the act of claiming, or a claim) and the
- Väittämään serves as the non-finite form used in non-finite clauses and in certain syntactic constructions where
- The verb and its derivatives frequently occur in legal, academic, and journalistic writing, where statements, allegations,
- Common collocations include väittää jotakin (to claim something) and väittämiä totuuksia (the truths he claimed), the
- Väittäminen, the act of claiming
- Väittäjä, claimant or proponent (depending on context)
Overall, väittämään is a specialized non-finite form tied to the broader verb class around claiming or