Kestävämpään

Kestävämmäähän is the Finnish comparative form of the adjective kestävä, used to describe something that is more durable or more sustainable than another option. In everyday and policy language it commonly signals a shift toward greater durability, resilience, or environmental responsibility. Phrases such as kestävämpään tulevaisuuteen (to a more sustainable future) or kestävämmän energiankäytön edistäminen (promotion of more sustainable energy use) illustrate its usage with illative-case nouns.

Grammatically, kestävä is an adjective and forms the comparative kestävämpi. The form kestävämpään is the illative singular of the comparative, used when indicating movement toward or adoption of a more durable or sustainable state. Other inflected forms follow standard Finnish adjective declension, for example kestävämmän (genitive), kestävämpää (partitive).

Usage notes: kestävämpää and its variations appear in discussions about environmental policy, design, business strategy, and everyday decisions where the aim is to improve sustainability or durability relative to an alternative. The expression is versatile and can modify nouns in various cases, always conveying a comparative degree of sustainability or durability.

See also: kestävä, kestävä kehitys, kestävyys, ekologinen kestävyys.