Levitessään
Levitessään is a Finnish participial form derived from the verb levitä, meaning "to spread." It functions as an adverbial participle that expresses a simultaneous action, roughly translating to "as it spreads" or "while it spreads." In Finnish, such participial clauses can connect two parts of a sentence without a conjunction, providing descriptive background or movement of events. The form typically refers to the subject of the main clause.
Morphology and usage: Levitessään is formed by taking the verb levitä and adding the suffix -essään, which
Examples: Sana levisi nopeasti, levitessään kylästä toiseen. Uutinen levisi sosiaalisessa mediassa, levitessään ihmisten kuiskauksista keskustelut myöhemmin
See also: Finnish grammar, participial clauses in Finnish, verb levitä.
Note: Levitessään is primarily a literary and formal device. In everyday Finnish, speakers may use finite clauses