Kehityksellisiä

Kehityksellisiä is a Finnish adjective form meaning development-related or developmental. It is the plural partitive form of the adjective kehityksellinen, which describes something connected to development, growth, or developmental processes. The form is used when referring to multiple items in the partitive case, for example in phrases describing aspects or factors.

In Finnish, kehitykselliseen, kehityksellisiä, kehityksellisten etc. are produced by inflecting the base kehityksellinen, itself derived from the noun kehitys (development) with the suffix -ksellinen. The singular partitive form is kehityksellistä, while the plural nominative is kehitykselliset, and the plural partitive is kehityksellisiä. This pattern is typical for adjectives ending in -ksellinen and is common in scientific, educational, and formal prose.

Usage and contexts: kehityksellisiä is frequently found in technical and academic Finnish, including fields such as developmental biology, developmental psychology, education, and public health. It modifies plural nouns to indicate a developmental nature, for example kehityksellisiä tekijöitä (developmental factors), kehityksellisiä muutoksia (developmental changes), or kehityksellisiä häiriöitä (developmental disorders). It is not used to describe people directly; for conditions representing disability, more specific terms like kehitysvamma are typically used.

See also: kehitys, kehityspsykologia, kehitysbiologia, kehityshäiriöt. The term reflects Finnish morphological patterns for -ksellinen adjectives and demonstrates how development-related concepts are expressed in scientific Finnish.