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Viettää

Verb type: 1

Translations

  1. (transitive) to spend (time), pass the time
    • viettää iltaa ― to spend the evening
    • viettää lomaa ― to holiday (Aus, NZ, UK), vacation (US)
  2. (transitive, usually atelic) to celebrate, commemorate (basically always with a qualifier, such as viettää syntymäpäiviä (“to celebrate birthday, to have a birthday party, etc.”))
  3. (intransitive) to slope (down), incline

Conjugations

Indicative Conjugations

The present, imperfect, perfect, and pluperfect (past perfect) tenses in English correspond to "speaks", "spoke", "has spoken", and "had spoken".

Present tense conjugation chart

Past tense conjugation chart

Perfect tense conjugation chart

Pluperfect tense conjugation chart

Conditional Conjugations

The conditional present and perfect moods in English typically correspond to "would" and "would have".

Present tense conjugation chart

Perfect tense conjugation chart