Imittävien

Imittävien is a Finnish grammatical form, the genitive plural of the present active participle imittävä, derived from the verb imittää meaning “to imitate” or “to mimic.” As a present active participle, imittävä can function as an adjective describing something that imitates, or as a modifier within a noun phrase. The form imittävien marks genitive plural and is used when the head noun is in genitive plural or in a possessive construction, for example imittävien sanojen meaning “of the imitators’ words” or “imitating words.”

In Finnish, participles are declined like adjectives and can take various case and number endings. Imittävien specifically represents the genitive plural form of the present active participle, and it appears in phrases where the modified noun is in genitive plural, or where possession or association is being expressed. The usage is more common in linguistic descriptions, grammars, and formal writing than in everyday speech.

Usage examples include phrases such as imittävien sanojen mukaan, meaning “according to the words of the imitators,” or imittävien henkilöiden lausunnot, meaning “the statements of the imitators.” Such constructions illustrate how present active participles can function as adjectives that attach to nouns within genitive contexts, conveying who is performing the imitation or what is being described as imitative.

Overall, imittävien is a specialized inflected form used primarily in formal or academic Finnish to refer to the group or set of imitators in a possessive or relational sense. It is part of the broader system of participial forms that Finnish uses to express action and attribution within noun phrases.