Arvostelevissa

Arvostelevissa is a Finnish grammatical form, specifically the inessive plural of the present active participle arvosteleva, which comes from the verb arvostella meaning to evaluate, assess, or critique. It functions as a participial adjective and is used to describe contexts, groups, or situations where evaluation is taking place, or to indicate the agents who perform evaluation.

Morphologically, arvostelevissa is built from arvosteleva (the present active participle) with the inessive plural suffix -issa/-issä. This makes it suitable for modifying plural nouns in the inessive case, for example in phrases such as arvostelevissa tilanteissa or arvostelevissa yhteisöissä. In these phrases the sense is roughly “in evaluating contexts” or “in groups that evaluate.”

Usage of arvostelevissa is relatively specialized. It appears most often in descriptive, academic, or literary Finnish rather than in everyday conversation. It is useful for signaling that a description pertains to environments or groups engaged in evaluation, critique, or assessment.

Common collocations include arvostelevissa tilanteissa (in evaluating situations), arvostelevissa yhteisöissä (in evaluating communities), and arvostelevissa ryhmissä (in evaluating groups). These phrases help foreground the act of evaluation as a contextual or behavioral characteristic.

Related forms include the present participle arvosteleva, the past participle arvostellut, and other mood variants. Arvostelevissa itself is not a separate lexical item, but a grammatical inflection that enlarges the expressive possibilities for describing evaluative contexts in Finnish.