Pyöriville

Pyöriville is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the present active participle pyörivä, meaning rotating or spinning. It represents the allative plural form of that participle and is used to indicate direction toward or for multiple rotating entities. In standard Finnish, pyöriville occurs primarily in descriptive or technical contexts and is uncommon in everyday speech.

Morphology and usage: The stem pyöriv- takes the allative suffix -ille to produce pyöriville. It appears in noun phrases where an adjective or participle modifies a plural noun that is the target or beneficiary of an action, for example pyöriville laitteille meaning “to the rotating devices” or pyöriville osille meaning “to the rotating parts.” The form agrees with the number of the head noun and is one among several ways Finnish marks direction with adjectives or participles.

Notes and context: Pyöriville is a typical illustration of how Finnish uses case endings with adjectives and participles, rather than with separate prepositions. It is not a separate lexical item, but a grammatical form that changes with the surrounding noun.

See also: Finnish grammar, allative case, present active participle, adjective declension.