Säteilevänä

Säteilevänä is the essive singular form of the Finnish adjective säteilevä, meaning radiant or emitting light. In Finnish grammar, the essive case marks a temporary state or role, roughly corresponding to “as …” in English. Therefore säteilevänä expresses “in a radiant state” or “as radiant,” and is used to describe how something appears or functions temporarily.

Morphology and usage

The form is created by taking the stem säteilev- and adding the essive suffix -nä (with assimilation to vowel harmony), yielding säteilevänä. The corresponding plural form is säteilevinä. Common contexts include descriptions in literature, art, or visual media, where a subject is presented in a particular, transient manner. It is typically used with the verb olla (to be) or in descriptive clauses about appearance and mood.

Examples

- Hän esiintyi säteilevänä hahmona näytelmässä. (He appeared as a radiant character in the play.)

- Kuvatekstissä talo on säteilevänä, kun auringonvalo heijastuu ikkunoista. (In the caption, the house is radiant as sunlight reflects from the windows.)

Notes

Säteilevä_root meaning relates to radiation or glow (säteily is radiation; säteillä means to radiate). The essive form is one of several case-based adjective inflections in Finnish, used to express a temporary state rather than a permanent attribute. In translations, säteilevänä is often rendered as “radiant,” “glowing,” or “as radiant,” depending on context.

See also

säteilevä, essive case, Finnish grammar, radiance in literature.