Taivuttavia

Taivuttavia is the plural partitive form of the Finnish present active participle taivuttava, derived from the verb taivuttaa, which means both “to bend” and “to persuade.” The participle taivuttava describes something that can be bent or can be bent in a figurative sense, such as an argument or a mind, depending on context. As the form taivuttavia, it is used when modifying a plural noun in the partitive case, for example taivuttavia metallilohkoja, meaning bendable metal blocks.

In Finnish, the present active participle is formed with the suffix -va/-vä on the verb stem, and taivuttava behaves like other participles in its inflection. Taivuttavia can function attributively to plural nouns, indicating that the referenced items have the property of bendability or pliability. The same stem also yields related forms such as taivuttava (singular) and taivuttavuus (noun form, meaning ductility or bendability).

The range of usage includes both literal and figurative meanings. In technical language, taivuttavuus is used to describe a material’s ductility—the extent to which it can deform plastically before breaking. In everyday language, taivuttava can describe something that is physically bendable or, metaphorically, something that is easily persuaded or influenced, depending on the surrounding words and context.

Related terms in Finnish include taivutus (bending or inflection, depending on context), taivutettavuus (often used to refer to the concept of being bendable or pliable in a general sense), and taivuttaa (the verb “to bend” or “to persuade”). Taivuttavia is thus a flexibly usable form in both material descriptions and figurative speech, following standard Finnish participle inflection.