väsyttääverbin

Väsyttää is a Finnish verb meaning to tire or to feel tired. It can express both the experience of fatigue by the subject and the idea that something causes fatigue for someone. In practice, väsyttää is often used in an impersonal construction where the experiencer is expressed in the object form (minua, sinua, häntä, meitä, teitä, heitä), while the subject is an impersonal “it” or the situation that causes tiredness.

Grammatical use and construction

Väsyttää is typically used with the experiencer in the partitive or accusative forms such as minua väsyttää or sinua väsyttää. The basic present tense is the verb stem väsyttää, while the subject of fatigue is not a clear grammatical subject but the situation or thing that causes tiredness. Examples: Minua väsyttää. (I am tired / I feel fatigued.) Se väsyttää minut. (That tires me.) Pitkä työpäivä väsyttää minua. (A long workday tires me.) The past tense is formed with väsytti, as in Minua väsytti koko päivän. (I was tired all day.) The interrogative form is Väsyttääkö sinua? (Are you tired?)

Meaning and usage notes

Väsyttää can refer to physical fatigue, mental exhaustion, or general weariness. It is commonly used with everyday experiences of tiredness after work, studying, or physical activity. The related noun is väsymys (fatigue), and the adjective väsynyt (tired). The verb is typically taught as a way to describe a subjective state of tiredness rather than an action performed by a specific agent.

Related forms and related verbs

Väsyttää contrasts with väsyä, which means “to be tired” or “to become tired” as an intransitive verb. Väsyttää acts causatively in a sense, signaling that something induces fatigue in someone. The construction is a notable example of Finnish impersonal verb usage, where the experiencer is marked within the object case rather than as the grammatical subject.