Työskentelevää

Työskentelevää is the partitive singular form of the Finnish present active participle työskentelevä, which comes from the verb työskenteillä meaning to work or to operate. The participle functions as an adjective describing someone or something that is currently performing work or that is in operation. In Finnish, participles decline like adjectives and take the partitive ending when the modified noun is in the partitive case, among other contexts.

Usage notes:

- Attributive use: työskentelevä can precede a noun to form phrases such as työskentelevä työntekijä (a worker who is working). In other cases, the participle agrees with the noun in case and number, so in the partitive it appears as työskentelevää.

- Partitive object or indefinite reference: näen työskentelevää lasta (I see a child who is working) illustrates how the participle takes the partitive to align with the object form.

- Machines and systems: työskentelevä laite or työskenteleviä koneita (operating devices, operating machines) show the adjectival function applied to in-operation equipment.

- Nuance: työskentelevä emphasizes ongoing activity or functioning, rather than mere capability; related terms include toimiva (functioning/operational) and aktiivisesti työskentelevä (actively working).

See also:

- Työskentelevä (present active participle in base form)

- Muuntuneet ja attributiiviset participelit (participles used as adjectives in Finnish)

- Verbin taivutus ja kielenoppimisen viittaukset participleihin

Työskentelevää as a form highlights ongoing action and is common in descriptive, relative, and object constructions in Finnish.