Kysyviä
Kysyviä is a Finnish word formed from the verb kysyä (to ask) with the present active participle suffix -va/-vä. The base form of the participle is kysyvä, meaning “asking” or “one who asks.” The form kysyviä is the plural partitive of that participle and is used when the participle modifies a plural noun in the partitive case. In Finnish, adjectives and participles agree with the noun they modify in number and case, so phrases like kysyviä ihmisiä or kysyviä lapsia illustrate a group described as “people who ask” or “children who ask.”
- Kysyviä primarily functions as an attributive participle, meaning it acts like an adjective describing a noun,
- Because the form is partitive plural, it typically appears in phrases where the entire noun phrase
- The word is distinct from the finite verb forms of kysyä (such as kysyy, kysyvät). It is
Examples (illustrative, not exhaustive)
- kysyviä ihmisiä (people who ask)
- kysyviä lapsia (children who ask)
- in broader contexts, the phrase may appear as part of a larger clause or sentence where the
- Present active participles in Finnish
Kysyviä thus functions as a descriptive, participial form used to label or characterize plural entities by