Selvittäviin

Selvittäviin is a Finnish morphological form derived from the verb selvittää, which means to clarify, resolve, or investigate. The word selvittävä is the present active participle meaning “clarifying” or “investigating.” Selvittäviin is the illative plural form of this participle, used as an attributive modifier that agrees in case and number with a plural noun in illative (the “into” or “toward” case).

Morphology and usage

Selvittäviin combines the participial stem selvittä-v- with the illative plural ending -iin. It appears before a plural noun in illative case, for example selvittäviin prosesseihin or selvittäviin toimenpiteisiin, meaning “to the processes that clarify” or “to the measures that clarify.” This form does not stand alone as a separate lexical item; it functions as a descriptive adjective tied to the following noun and reflects ongoing or habitual action related to clarifying tasks within the illative context.

Context and register

In everyday Finnish, the use of participial adjectives like selvittävä and its inflected forms is common in technical, academic, or formal policy writing. Selvittäviin is most typical in complex noun phrases where the action described by the participle is attributed to the plural noun and governed by the illative case.

Examples

- Selvittäviin prosesseihin liittyy useita vaiheita. (There are several steps involved in the processes that clarify.)

- Kehityshankkeessa kiinnitettiin huomiota selvittäviin toimenpiteisiin. (The development project paid attention to the measures that clarify.)

See also

Finnish grammar, present active participles, illative case, -va/-vä adjectives, nominalized participles.