Koskevassa

Koskevassa is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the verb koskea, meaning "to touch" or, in a broader sense, "to concern." In everyday and formal Finnish, koskeva functions as a present participle used as a descriptive adjective meaning "concerning" or "relevant to." The form koskevassa is the inessive singular ending of this participial adjective, and it is used when the noun it modifies appears in the inessive case, indicating a location or context within which something is concerned or related.

In practice, koskevassa is used to introduce qualifiers about a topic, issue, or document. For example, phrases such as "tutkimukseen koskevassa raportissa" (in the report concerning the study) or "keskuksesta koskevassa keskustelussa" (in the discussion pertaining to the matter) show how the form links a subject to its relevant context. The word is common in legal, administrative, and academic writing, where precise description of relevance is important. It can be inflected to agree with different nouns and cases, following the usual Finnish grammar of adjectives and participles.

Etymologically, koskevassa comes from koskea, with the participle koskeva turning into an adjective that can modify nouns like any other Finnish adjective. Its use helps specify that a statement, rule, or document applies to or touches on a particular subject.

Koskevassa is not a proper noun and does not denote a place or person. It functions as a grammatical tool to indicate relevance or relation to a specified topic within a sentence.