Lävistävään

Lävistävään is a Finnish inflected form derived from the verb lävistää, meaning to pierce or perforate. The base adjective form lävistävä describes something that pierces, and the word is used in technical and descriptive contexts to qualify tools, materials, or actions that create holes by piercing.

In practice, lävistävään appears as an inflected form in sentences where the participle is used attributively or in dependent clauses. It can modify a noun to indicate that the noun relates to piercing or perforation, for example in phrases like lävistävän terän (the piercing blade) or lävistävän reiän (the pierced hole). The usage is specialized and more common in engineering, manufacturing, and crafts than in everyday language.

Related terms in Finnish include lävistäjä (piercer or punch tool), lävistäminen (the act of piercing or perforation), and lävistys (piercing). These forms share the same root and describe equipment, processes, or results connected to piercing materials such as metal, wood, or textiles. The vocabulary is part of the broader field of material processing and fabrication, where precise cutting and hole-making are common operations.

Etymologically, lävistävään belongs to the family formed from lävistää and its present active participle lävistävä. The term is primarily found in technical descriptions, manuals, and industry-specific texts, rather than in general conversational Finnish.