Syöttäviä

Syöttäviä is a Finnish present active participle form of the verb syöttää, meaning to feed or to supply. It is the plural partitive form of the present active participle and is used with a head noun in the partitive or in other cases according to Finnish grammar. As an attributive modifier, syöttäviä describes entities that perform the action of feeding.

In Finnish, present active participles function similarly to adjectives and can be used to create concise relative clauses or noun phrases. The form syöttäviä is declined like an adjective and reflects that the noun it modifies is in a context where it is part of a larger ongoing feeding action. The base stem comes from syöttä-, with the participle suffix -vä/-vä, and the plural partitive ending is -viä (hence syöttäviä). Other related forms include syöttävä (singular nominative), syöttävät (plural nominative), and syöttävää (singular partitive).

Usage notes:

- Syöttäviä typically appears in descriptive or technical text, especially in contexts such as wildlife, agriculture, breeding, or caregiving where the activity of feeding is central to the description.

- It stands in contrast to other participle forms such as syöttävä (singular present active) and to the past participle syöttänyt (fed) and the verbal noun syöttäminen (feeding).

- Like other Finnish participles, syöttäviä can be used to condense information that would otherwise require a relative clause.

Example phrasing:

- A phrase such as syöttäviä eläimiä demonstrates how the form functions in a noun phrase, conveying “feeding animals” or “animals that feed,” depending on context and case of the head noun.