eivät
Finnish
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ei‧vät
- IPA(key): [ˈeiʋæt]
Verb
eivät
Usage notes
- The negative verb is used with the connegative form of the main verb. The indicative present connegative form is identical to the second-person singular imperative. The potential mood connegative ends in the marker for that mood, -ne-, and the conditional mood connegative ends in the marker for that mood, -isi-. In the indicative past, conditional past and potential past, the active past participle plural (ending -eet) is used. The connegative form of the main verb is always used without the personal suffix.
- Usage of eivät:
- Indicative:
- Conditional:
- He näkisivät. (They would see.) -> He eivät näkisi. (They would not see.)
- He olisivat nähneet. (They would have seen.) -> He eivät olisi nähneet. (They would not have seen.)
- Potential:
- He nähnevät. (They probably see.) -> He eivät nähne. (They probably do not see.)
- He lienevät nähneet. (They have probably seen.) -> He eivät liene nähneet. (They have probably not seen.)
Conjugation
- The negation verb has no infinitive form.
- Indicative, conditional and potential moods use the indicative forms (stem e-), for which the verb is conjugated only in person.
- In the imperative mood the negation verb has the stem äl-.
- An archaic optative mood exists and is used mainly in poetry.
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