ympäröidään

Ympäröidään is Finnish verb form that means “is surrounded.” It is the present tense, passive form of the verb ympäröidä, which means to surround or encircle. This form is used when the subject is undergoing the action of being surrounded, and the agent performing the surrounding is usually not specified.

Usage of ympäröidään occurs in descriptive writing, geography, urban planning, and journalism when a state or condition needs to be described without naming who or what causes the enclosure. It can refer to physical encirclement as well as more figurative encirclement. Esimerkiksi: Kaupunki ympäröidään muurein, or Alue ympäröidään vesillä, illustrate how the city or area is enclosed by surrounding features.

Grammatical notes: ympäröidään is a finite verb in the third-person singular present passive. Its negation in the same tense is ei ympäröidä. In many contexts the agent remains implicit, with the surrounding elements identified rather than the doer of the action.

Related terms and concepts include ympäröinti (the act of surrounding or enclosure), ympäröivä (surrounding; an attributive or noun form), and ympäröivä ympäristö (surrounding environment). The root verbs and nouns connect to broader Finnish vocabulary for spatial relationships and description of places.