Elvyttävään

Elvyttävään is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the verb elvyttää, which means to revive, resuscitate or revitalise. It is the illative singular form of the present active participle elvyttävä, a word that functions as an adjective describing something that revives or promotes revival.

As the present active participle elvyttävä describes an agent or process that performs revival or revitalisation, the related form elvyttävään appears when the word is declined to indicate direction toward or purpose related to revival. In practice this form is used in phrases where the action of reviving is being directed at a noun in the illative case, for example elvyttävään toimenpiteeseen, meaning “into a reviving/resuscitating procedure.” The basic participle elvyttävä is more common in attributive position, while elvyttävään marks a specific grammatical case in a sentence.

Usage of elvyttävään tends to occur in formal or technical Finnish, particularly in contexts related to medicine, emergency care, rehabilitation, and policy descriptions where revival, resuscitation, or revitalisation are being discussed as goals or directions. In everyday language, speakers more often use the related noun elvyttäminen (revival, resuscitation) or the base participle elvyttävä without inflection into the illative.

Etymologically, elvyttävä comes from elvyttää plus the present participle suffix -vä/-vä, with the illative case ending -ään/-ään, producing elvyttävään. The form is one of several inflected variants used to express grammatical relations in Finnish.

See also: elvyttää, elvyttäminen, elvyttävä.