Vetäville

Vetäville is a Finnish inflected form that appears in grammar as the allative plural form of a part of speech built from the root vetä- (from the verb vetää, “to pull”). The base adjective or present active participle vetävä means “pulling” or “attractive,” and vetäville represents the form used when referring to a group of people or entities to whom something is directed or attributed, i.e., “to/for the pullers.” In Finnish, the allative case is marked with the suffix -lle, and the plural form is used for multiple recipients or beneficiaries.

In practice, vetäville is most often seen in descriptive or linguistic contexts rather than in everyday speech. It can function as a substantive phrase equivalent to “the pullers” or, more broadly, as the indirect-object recipient of an action. Because Finnish does not have a dedicated dative case, the allative form serves to indicate the target or beneficiary of an action, and vetäville uses this mechanism when the head noun is implied by the context or explicitly stated elsewhere in the sentence.

Usage notes and scope: vetäville is a relatively specialized form. It tends to appear in grammars, linguistic analyses, or formal writing rather than in casual conversation. Its interpretation depends on the surrounding text, which clarifies whether it refers to people who pull, a figurative group described as “pullers,” or a group identified as recipients of an action.

Example: Vetäville annettiin ohjeet. (Instructions were given to the pullers / to those who pull.) See also Finnish grammar, participles, allative case.