Ryhtyvää

Ryhtyvää is the partitive singular form of the present active participle of the Finnish verb ryhtyä, meaning to begin or undertake. The base present active participle is ryhtyvä, and ryhtyvää is used when the participle modifies a noun that is in the partitive case or when the phrase requires the partitive form. As a participle, ryhtyvää can function adjectivally, describing a noun, or appear in certain non-finite syntactic constructions.

Form and declension

The present active participle of ryhtyä declines like an adjective. Key forms include:

- Nominative singular: ryhtyvä

- Genitive singular: ryhtyvän

- Partitive singular: ryhtyvää

- Nominative plural: ryhtyvät

- Genitive plural: ryhtyvien

- Partitive plural: ryhtyviä

The form ryhtyvää is specifically the partitive singular.

Usage and meaning

Ryhtyvää conveys initiative or willingness to act, often describing people or groups characterized by readiness to undertake a task. Examples:

- ryhtyvä mies = a man who is ready to undertake something

- ryhtyvää väkeä = resolute people

The partitive form ryhtyvää appears in phrases where the modified noun is in the partitive, such as ryhtyvää väkeä or ryhtyvää suunnitelmaa, conveying the sense of an undertaking or act that is about to begin.

Etymology

The participle is formed from ryhtyä with the present-participle suffix -vä, yielding ryhtyvä, with ryhtyvää functioning as the inflected partitive singular form.

Notes

Ryhtyvää is relatively formal and more common in literary or written Finnish. In everyday speech, speakers may opt for alternative constructions or synonyms to express readiness or intent.

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