Muuntautuvien

Muuntautuvien is a Finnish grammatical term referring to a specific inflection form of the present active participle muuntautuva, which comes from the verb muuntautua meaning to transform or metamorphose. Muuntautuva functions as an adjective-like participle meaning "transforming" or "transformable," and muuntautuvien is its genitive plural form. In practice, muuntautuvien modifies a noun to indicate that the described things are characterized by or capable of transformation, for example in phrases like muuntautuvien ilmiöiden tutkimus (the study of transforming phenomena) or muuntautuvien asioiden kehittäminen (the development of transforming matters).

Usage and meaning

- Muuntautuvien denotes possession or relation of multiple transforming entities when the noun it modifies is in genitive plural. It often appears in scholarly or descriptive prose where Finnish participles are used as adjectives to convey ongoing or inherent transformation.

- The term is primarily a grammatical form rather than a standalone lexical item. Its meaning is derived from muuntautuva (transforming) and is closely tied to how Finnish uses participles to form descriptive compounds.

Morphology and related forms

- Base participle: muuntautuva (present active participle, “transforming”).

- Related forms include muuntautuvaa (partitive singular), muuntautuvan (genitive singular), muuntautuvat (nominative plural), muuntautuviin (illative plural), muuntautuvia (partitive plural), and muuntautuvien (genitive plural).

- The form muuntautuvien is specifically the genitive plural, used when the noun it accompanies is in genitive plural or in possessive constructions.

See also

- muuntautua, the verb meaning to transform

- Finnish participles and their adjectival use in grammar and style