Siirrellään

Siirrellään is the present passive form of the Finnish verb siirrellä, which means to move something around, shift, or relocate in small steps or gradually. In usage, the form functions to describe an action that is being carried out without specifying who is performing it. It can refer to physical movement as well as to more abstract processes such as transfers, adjustments, or rescheduling.

The nuance of siirrellä, compared to the more common siirtää (to move or transfer), is that siirrellä often implies repeated, incremental, or tentative movement rather than a single, decisive action. This make siirrellään suitable for describing ongoing processes where the actor is unknown, unimportant, or intentionally omitted, which is typical in descriptive or procedural texts.

In grammar, siirrellään is a present passive form used with objects in the partitive case when the object is indefinite. Examples include pöytää siirrellään (the table is being moved around), tiedosto siirrellään palvelimelta toiselle (the file is being transferred from one server to another), and aikataulua siirrellään eteenpäin (the timetable is being moved forward / rescheduled).

Related terms include siirtää (to move/transfer, more decisive) and siirto (a transfer or shift). Siirrellä and its passive form are commonly found in everyday language, technical writing, and descriptions of ongoing adjustments, both physical and administrative.