Kasvavien

Kasvavien is a Finnish grammatical form that appears in noun phrases to express that the head noun is in a state of growth or has the property of growing. It is the genitive plural form of the present active participle kasvava (growing). In Finnish, present active participles can function as adjectives, and when they precede a noun that is in genitive, the participle takes the genitive plural ending -ien. This results in constructions such as kasvavien kasvien hoito, meaning “the care of the growing plants.”

Usage and function: Kasvavien modifies a following noun in genitive, conveying a relative or qualitative sense such as “growing” or “in the process of growing.” It is commonly found in botanical, agricultural, and scientific contexts, as well as in descriptive writing. The form helps to link two related nouns, where the first (kasvavien) describes the second (the genitive noun).

Examples:

- Kasvavien kasvien hoito on tärkeää. (Care of the growing plants is important.)

- Tutkimus kasvavien kukkien vaikutuksista julkaistaan myöhemmin. (A study on the effects of the growing flowers will be published later.)

- Kasvavien juurien tutkimus tarjoaa uutta tietoa. (Research on the growing roots provides new information.)

Notes: Kasvavien is not a standalone lexical item but a specific inflected form used within noun phrases. Its correct use depends on aligning with a following noun in genitive and applying the genitive plural ending -ien to the participial adjective kasva-va.