Jäljitteleviin

Jäljitteleviin is a Finnish grammatical form. It is the illative plural form of the adjective jäljittelevä, meaning “imitative” or “mimetic.” The form is used to describe a plural noun in the illative case, typically in linguistic or stylistic descriptions rather than in everyday prose.

Morphology and usage: the base stem is jäljittelev-, to which the illative plural suffix -iin is attached, yielding jäljitteleviin. Because Finnish adjectives agree with the nouns they modify, jäljitteleviin only occurs when the modified noun is plural and in illative case. For example, jäljitteleviin teksteihin means “to the imitative texts.” A fuller phrase could be: tutkimukset jäljitteleviin teksteihin viittaavat, meaning “studies that refer to imitative texts.”

Context: the form is specialized and primarily found in dictionaries, grammar descriptions, and linguistic analyses that discuss mimicry, imitation, or stylistic devices in language or art. It is not a common everyday word on its own and is typically encountered in scholarly or descriptive contexts.