Jatkuvaan
Jatkuvaan is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective jatkuva, meaning continuous or ongoing. In Finnish, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number and case, and jatkuva can take various endings to reflect different grammatical cases. The form jatkuvaan is the illative singular form, used when the adjective stands with a noun in the illative case to indicate direction toward or for a purpose related to a continuous state.
In usage, jatkuvaan appears most often in technical, administrative, or formal language. It commonly occurs in
Examples of common contexts include expressions like jatkuvaan käyttöön (for continuous use), jatkuvaan kehitykseen (toward continuous
Etymologically, jatkuvaan derives from the root jatkua, meaning to continue or endure, combined with the attributive
See also: Finnish grammar, illative case, adjectives in Finnish, ongoing in Finnish usage.