Kehittyvällä

Kehittyvällä is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective kehittyvä, meaning developing or evolving. In Finnish, adjectives decline like nouns, so kehittyvällä is the adessive singular form used to indicate location or manner, roughly translating to "on the developing" or "in a developing way" depending on the noun it accompanies.

The form kehittyvällä is most commonly used with nouns to describe something in a state of development or growth. It can denote physical location, such as kehittyvällä alueella (in the developing area), or describe the manner of an action, such as kehittyvällä tavalla (in a developing way). Because it is an adjective form, kehittyvällä itself does not convey a standalone meaning without a accompanying noun or phrase.

Grammatically, kehittyvä is formed from the verb kehittyä (to develop) with the participle suffix -vä. The adessive suffix -llä attaches to produce kehittyvällä, which is then combined with a noun to indicate where something is developing or how something is being developed.

Usage notes: kehittyvällä is common in academic, media, and policy contexts when describing economies, technologies, regions, or processes that are not yet fully developed but are progressing. It often appears in collocations such as kehittyvällä teknologia-alueella, kehittyvällä maaseudulla, or kehittyvällä tavalla.

Examples:

- Kiinan kehittyvällä teknologiasektorilla on nähty kasvua. (In China’s developing technology sector there has been growth.)

- Hanke on suunniteltu kehittyvällä tavalla parantamaan energiatehokkuutta. (The project is designed to improve energy efficiency in a developing manner.)

- Kehittyvällä alueella investoinnit ovat lisääntyneet. (Investments have increased in the developing area.)

Etymology: kehittyvä derives from kehittyä with the participle suffix -vä, and kehittyvällä is the adessive form used to express location or manner.