Esiintyvälle

Esiintyvälle is a grammatical form in Finnish, specifically the allative case of the present active participle esiintyvä, which means performing or appearing. The form is used to indicate the recipient or target of an action, often in contexts such as giving, offering, or addressing something to a group described by the participle. In practice, esiintyvälle functions like an adjective-noun phrase referring to a “performing” or “appearing” group in the indirect object position.

Morphology and related forms: esiintyvälle is formed from the participle stem esiinty-, plus the participle ending -vä, and then the allative suffix -lle. The singular allative is esiintyvälle, while the plural allative is esiintyville (e.g., to the performing groups). The base forms of the same adjective include esiintyvä (nominative), esiintyviä (partitive/plural), and other case forms for different syntactic roles.

Usage notes: The allative form is comparatively common in formal written Finnish or descriptive text when specifying the target or recipient of an action tied to the idea of “performing” or “appearing.” It is less frequent in everyday speech, where phrases like esiinnytäen yleisölle or for-phrases such as “esiintyvälle yleisölle suunnattu ohjelma” might be used instead to convey similar meaning. Correct usage depends on identifying the recipient as a group characterized by the attribute performing or appearing.

Examples:

- Ohjelma on suunnattu esiintyvälle yleisölle.

- Lahjoitus on osoitettu esiintyvälle ryhmälle.

See also: esiintyvä, esiintyminen, Finnish participles, Finnish case system.