Viettää

Translations

1. to spend (time), pass the time

   viettää iltaa ― to spend the evening

   viettää lomaa ― to holiday (Aus, NZ, UK), vacation (US)

2. 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".

Conditional Conjugations

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