Tärisevää

Tärisevää is the partitive singular form of the Finnish present active participle tärisevä, meaning trembling or shaking. The form is used to describe a state or characteristic of something that shakes or trembles, and it often appears in phrases where the noun is indefinite or the action is viewed from a state perspective.

Grammatical notes: In Finnish, the present participle formed with the suffix -va/-vä can function as an adjective or as part of a participial phrase. When the noun it modifies is in the partitive case or when the action is described as an ongoing state, the participle takes the partitive ending, giving tärisevää. Example: Kuulin tärisevää ääntä (I heard a trembling sound). Another example: Tunsin tärisevää jännitystä (I felt trembling/nervous tension).

Usage: Tärisevää is common in descriptive prose and can appear in literary, medical, or technical contexts to convey tremor, vibration, or nervous trembling. It can refer to physical phenomena (a tärisevä pöytä, a trembling table) or to human experience (tärisevä ääni, a trembling voice; tärisevä käsi, a trembling hand in colloquial usage when the noun is treated in the partitive).

Related terms: The word relates to tärinä, the noun for tremor or vibration. Synonyms or near-synonyms include vapiseva (quivering) and other forms describing motion or instability. Etymologically, tärisevää is derived from the root tärin- and the -va/-vä present participle suffix, aligning with the broader family of -va/-vä adjectives in Finnish.