Tärisevän

Tärisevän is the genitive singular form of the present active participle täriseva in Finnish grammar. The participle itself comes from a verb meaning to tremble or shake, and the genitive form tärisevän is used when the participle modifies a noun to express a state or quality of that noun in a dependent, possessive- or descriptive context.

In practice, tärisevän functions like an adjective that agrees with the noun in a genitive construction. It is not a separate lexical item, but a inflected form of the participle used to form noun phrases such as “tärisevan pöydän reuna” (the edge of the trembling table) or “tärisevan käden ote” (the grip of the trembling hand). The same participle can appear in other cases and numbers with corresponding endings (for example, partitive tärisevää, elative tärisevästä), depending on the grammatical role of the noun it describes.

Usage notes:

- tärisevän is typically found before a noun in genitive or as part of a larger noun phrase.

- It conveys a descriptive, experiential, or state-related meaning rather than a separate action noun.

- The form is common in descriptive writing and everyday speech when a speaker wishes to characterize a noun by its trembling or shaking condition.

See also: Finnish grammar, present active participles, adjective declension, genitive constructions.