Myymistään

Myymistään is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the verb myydä, meaning to sell. It is a non-finite, deverbal form that appears in genitive constructions to refer to the act of selling or to the goods or activities involved in selling, depending on context. In practice, myymistään functions similarly to a possessive genitive of a noun phrase related to selling, such as “the selling that is being done” or “the goods that are being sold.”

Usage and meaning

The exact meaning of myymistään is determined by its surrounding words. It often appears in phrases describing ownership or relation to sale, for example in clauses that discuss what is being sold, who is selling it, or the sources of selling activity. In English translations, it can correspond to expressions like “of the selling,” “the selling of,” or more naturally, “the goods being sold” or “the sale in question,” depending on the sentence. The form tends to be more common in formal, administrative, or legal language, but can also appear in journalistic or technical prose.

Relationship to related forms

Myymistään is related to other Finnish deverbal nouns and participial forms such as myynti (sale) and myyminen (the act of selling). While myynti refers to the sale itself and myyminen to the act, myymistään carries a genitive relation that ties the selling activity or its objects to another element in the sentence. It is distinct from for-sale constructions like myytävä, which describes items that are to be sold, rather than the relation of selling as such.

Notes

Translations of myymistään vary with context, so it is best understood by examining the full clause in which it appears.