Laskevana

Laskevana is a Finnish term used in grammar to describe the present active participle of the verb laskea. The verb laskea has sense clusters including to count, to calculate, and to lower or reduce. The present active participle formed on the stem laske- yields the adjective laskeva, meaning decreasing or counting. In the form laskevana, the participle functions as an adjective in certain constructions to express a state or ongoing process, often describing something that is in the process of decreasing.

In usage, laskevana appears mainly in linguistic descriptions and in discussions of dynamic phenomena such as economic or statistical trends. It is most commonly encountered in broader descriptive phrases rather than as a standalone lexical item. The form is of particular interest to analyses of Finnish grammar and how participles interact with nouns in various cases to convey state, rate of change, or ongoing action.

Examples of the broader usage include phrases that describe a trend or value as being in a decreasing state, often paired with a noun in a case that marks the state (for instance, in translative constructions). While not a separate lexical entry with its own meaning, laskevana is a recognized inflected form used to articulate ongoing decline within descriptive phrases.

See also: Finnish grammar, present active participle, adjectives, case inflection.