Siirtävissä

Siirtävissä is a Finnish grammatical form that comes from the verb siirtää, meaning to transfer or move. It is the present active participle siirtävä combined with the inessive plural ending, yielding siirtävissä. As a participial form, it functions like an adjective and is used to describe nouns that are currently in the process of being transferred or moved. In practice, siirtävissä describes ongoing transfer activity affecting multiple items or subjects.

Morphology and function. The base participle siirtävä conveys ongoing action (transferring/moving). When inflected for case and number, it takes the same adjective-like endings as other Finnish participles. The inessive plural form, siirtävissä, signals location or state “in” the transferring items or “in the process of being transferred” in reference to a plural noun. This contrasts with other related forms: siirrettävä (the potential passive participle meaning “to be transferred” or “transferable”) and siirtävä (nominative singular or other cases in singular). The siirtävissä form emphasizes ongoing action rather than mere possibility or completed transfer.

Usage. Siirtävissä appears primarily in technical, administrative, or descriptive text where it is useful to indicate that several objects or entities are currently undergoing relocation or transfer. It can modify a plural noun phrase, for example describing systems, packages, or items that are in the process of being moved. Its use tends toward formal or specialized language rather than everyday speech.

See also. Finnish grammar; Present active participle; Finnish case endings; Siirtää.

Notes. Siirtävissä is a specific inflected form and illustrates how Finnish combines participles with case endings to express ongoing actions in a plural context.