Synnyttämissä

Synnyttämissä is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the verb synnyttää, meaning to give birth. It is the inessive plural form of the present active participle, and it functions as an adjective-like modifier that refers to people or entities involved in the act of giving birth. In English this construction can be rendered as “in those who are giving birth” or “in the birth-giving (ones).”

Formation and meaning: The present active participle of synnyttää denotes ongoing action (“giving birth”). When the participle is inflected for the inessive plural, it becomes synnyttämissä, used to describe a plural subject that is currently performing the birth-giving action. The form appears in formal or descriptive contexts, often in written Finnish or specialized discourse.

Usage: Synnyttämissä tends to occur in medical, regulatory, or academic texts where it is useful to specify that a group is in the process of giving birth. It is less common in everyday spoken Finnish, where speakers typically use the noun synnytys (birth) or simpler participial constructions. Typical contexts might include discussions of conditions, environments, or circumstances surrounding childbirth, such as synnyttämissä tiloissa (in birth-giving environments) or synnyttämissä olosuhteissa (under birth-giving conditions).

Related forms: The term is part of a family of participial forms built from synnyttää. Other related forms include the present active participle singular forms (synnyttävä) and other case/number inflections, as well as the noun synnyttäminen (the act of giving birth) and the noun synnytys (birth).

See also: synnyttää, synnyttäminen, synnytys.