Kerääntyviä

Kerääntyviä is a Finnish linguistic form that functions as the plural partitive of the present active participle kerääntyvä, derived from the verb kerätäntyä (to gather or converge). As a participial adjective, kerääntyvä describes something that is in the process of gathering or tends to form clusters. The form kerääntyviä is used when the noun it modifies is plural and in the partitive case, for example kerääntyviä soluja.

In grammar, kerääntyvä is a present participle that can act as an adjective. Its inflected forms follow standard participle patterns: singular nominative kerääntyvä, singular partitive kerääntyvää, plural nominative kerääntyvät, plural partitive kerääntyviä. The word therefore often appears in scientific or descriptive texts where a mass or ongoing process is emphasized, rather than a completed state.

Contexts and usage examples include biology, physics, chemistry, and social sciences, where components, particles, or people are observed to come together. Examples in Finnish include kerääntyviä soluja (aggregating cells), kerääntyviä hiukkasia (aggregating particles), and kerääntyviä ihmisiä (forming crowds). Example sentences: Solut kerääntyvät muodostaen klusterin. Nesteessä havaittiin kerääntyviä partikkeleita. These illustrate how kerääntyviä conveys an ongoing tendency to accumulate or cluster.

Overall, kerääntyviä functions as a neutral, descriptive term for processes or states in which elements move toward grouping, providing a precise way to express aggregation in Finnish writing.