Keskittyvissä

Keskittyvissä is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the verb keskittyä, meaning to focus or concentrate. It is the inessive plural form of the present active participle keskittyvä and is used to describe plural nouns in the inessive case (in). The meaning conveyed is that the subjects are currently concentrating or in a state of concentration.

Morphology and usage

The present active participle keskittyvä denotes an ongoing action, and when it is inflected for plural inessive, the ending becomes -vissä. This form is used as an attributive adjective to modify a plural noun in the inessive, for example keskittyvissä ryhmissä meaning “in groups that are concentrating.” The participle can also appear in predicative or relative-clause constructions, aligning with the modified noun in number and case.

Typical contexts

Keskittyvissä is common in descriptive or instructional writing, particularly in educational, workplace, or research contexts where emphasis is on ongoing attention or engagement. It signals that the subjects are actively focusing on a task or objective at the time described.

Examples

- Oppilaat työskentelivät keskittyvissä ryhmissä. (The students worked in groups that were concentrating.)

- Tutkimuksessa huomio kiinnitettiin keskittyvissä ympäristöissä tapahtuvaan vuorovaikutukseen. (The study focused on interaction that occurs in concentrating environments.)

Relation to other forms

Keskittyvissä contrasts with keskittyvä (singular nominative) and keskittyvät (present active participle, plural). Like other -vissä forms of present participles, keskittyvissä expresses ongoing concentration and agrees with the noun it modifies in number and case.

See also

Finnish grammar, present active participle, inessive case.