Koskevaa

Koskevaa is a Finnish present active participle form of the verb koskea, meaning to touch or to concern. In contemporary usage it functions as an attributive modifier that attaches to a noun to convey the sense of “concerning,” “relating to,” or “affecting.” The form koskevaa is the partitive singular, used when the noun it modifies or the surrounding noun phrase is in the partitive or indefinite.

In practice, koskevaa appears most often in formal or written Finnish, including legal texts, policy documents, academic writing, and journalistic prose. It commonly introduces the scope or applicability of a statement, regulation, or finding, for example in phrases such as yritystä koskeva päätös (a decision concerning the company) or tietoja koskeva lainsäädäntö (legislation concerning data). The corresponding non-partitive adjective form is koskeva, which is used when the head noun is in the nominative or other cases not requiring the partitive.

Morphology and alternatives: koskevaa is the partitive singular; the corresponding plural would be koskevia (partitive plural) or koskevat (nominative plural) depending on the sentence structure. The verb’s base form koskea yields other participial forms as well, such as koskeva (nominative singular) or koskevat (nominative plural).

See also: koskea, koskeva, participles in Finnish.