Räjähtävän

Räjähtävän is a Finnish grammatical form that functions as a genitive singular of the present active participle/adjective räjähtävä, which means explosive or detonating. Räjähtävä is derived from the verb räjähtää, “to explode” or “to detonate,” and when used as an adjective it describes something related to explosion or capable of exploding.

As räjähtävän, the form appears in phrases where the modified noun is in the genitive or where possession or association is expressed. For example, räjähtävän aineen käsittely translates to “the handling of explosive material,” with räjähtävän modifying aineen in genitive. In contrast, in the nominative position you would typically use räjähtävä aine to mean “an explosive substance.”

Räjähtävän can also occur in complex noun phrases that specify properties or relations tied to explosion, such as räjähtävän vaurion aiheuttama riski (the risk caused by explosive damage), where the sense is that the noun is described as explosive or related to an explosion, with the genitive form indicating a possessive or associative relationship.

Notes and usage considerations:

- räjähtävän is not a stand-alone lexical word; it is a morphological form of räjähtävä used to fit Finnish case and grammatical structure.

- The same root can function in different forms (räjähtävä, räjähtävän, räjähtävän, etc.) depending on number, case, and syntactic role.

- In everyday language, räjähtävä aine or räjähtävän aineen asettelu illustrates common usage in technical or safety contexts.

Etymology traces back to the verb räjähtää and its present active participle räjähtävä, reflecting the connection to explosion or detonation.