Juoksevalla

Juoksevalla is a Finnish grammatical form rather than a standalone concept. It is the adessive singular inflected form of the present active participle juokseva, which comes from the verb juosta, meaning “to run.” As an adjective, juokseva describes something that is running or in motion, and like other participles it can take inflection to agree with a noun in different cases. When the adjective is used with a noun in the adessive case, the form becomes juoksevalla, for example in phrases such as juoksevalla radalla meaning “on the running track” or juoksevalla tiellä meaning “on the running road.”

In use, juoksevalla functions to provide a descriptive, contextual detail about a noun within a sentence. The exact meaning depends on the accompanying noun and case; it does not represent a separate lexical entry or concept beyond its role as a case-inflected participial adjective. Finnish speakers are more likely to encounter juoksevalla as part of everyday language when describing things that are literally or figuratively in motion, or when forming idiomatic expressions that incorporate the idea of running, such as running jokes, where the base if könnte juokseva or related forms appears in other grammatical cases.

Overall, juoksevalla exemplifies how Finnish participles travel through cases to modify nouns, yielding nuanced meanings tied to location or context. There is no distinct entity or widely recognized term named “Juoksevalla” beyond this grammatical role. See also Finnish grammar, present active participles, and adjective inflection.