Tarkastelevassa

Tarkastelevassa is a Finnish grammatical form that functions as the inessive singular of the present active participle tarkasteleva. The verb tarkastella means to inspect, examine, or consider, and tarkasteleva describes someone or something characterized by looking carefully or scrutinizing. In this use, tarkastelevassa is an adjective-like form whose endings follow the pattern of Finnish participles, showing a state or manner of action.

As a participle, tarkasteleva can be used to modify nouns, and its case endings align with normal Finnish adjectives. The inessive form tarkastelevassa commonly appears in phrases such as tarkastelevassa hengessä (in a scrutinizing spirit) or tarkastelevassa tilassa (in a scrutinizing state). The corresponding adverbial form is tarkastelevasti, which expresses doing something in a scrutinizing manner. Other case forms of tarkasteleva follow the standard participle declension, for example tarkastelevan (genitive), tarkastelevaa (partitive), and tarkastelevissa (inessive plural).

Usage notes include that tarkastelevassa is primarily found in descriptive or formal writing, often to convey a particular attitude or mode of perception. It is not a standalone verb form but a participial adjective that derives from tarkastella. When a more neutral or general sense of examining is intended, the basic adjective tarkasteleva or the adverb tarkastelevasti may be chosen depending on the syntactic position.

Examples:

- Hän suhtautui kysymyksiin tarkastelevassa hengessä.

- Tutkimus tehtiin tarkastelevassa ilmapiirissä.

- Kirjoitus kuvaa tilannetta tarkastelevassa tilassa olevien näkökulmien kautta.

See also: tarkasteleva, tarkastella, present active participle in Finnish grammar.