Yhdistäviin

Yhdistäviin is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the verb yhdistää, meaning to connect or unite. It is the illative plural form of the present active participle yhdistävä, which translates roughly as "connecting" or "unifying." As a participial adjective, yhdistäviin functions to describe nouns in a way that emphasizes the act of joining or linking.

Usage and scope

The form yhdistäviin is used when the noun it modifies is in the illative plural, which marks direction toward or into plural objects or concepts. This makes yhdistäviin common in formal or technical Finnish, especially in policy, planning, or academic language that discusses aims, measures, values, or approaches intended to connect or unify elements.

Examples

- yhdistäviin toimenpiteisiin: towards measures that connect or unify

- yhdistäviin arvoihin perustuva lähestymistapa: an approach based on unifying values

- projektissa keskitytään yhdistäviin ratkaisuihin: the project focuses on connecting/unifying solutions

Notes

yhdistäviin is not a standalone lexical item in everyday speech but a specific inflected form of yhdistävä, used in contexts that require illative plural agreement. It appears primarily in written Finnish, especially in technical, organizational, or policy-related texts.