Ylittäviksi

Ylittäviksi is a Finnish grammatical form rather than a standalone lexical item. It is formed from the verb ylittää, meaning "to surpass" or "to cross," and functions as a plural translative form of the present active participle ylittävä (“exceeding”). In Finnish grammar, the translative case expresses becoming or turning into a certain state, and the plural form ends in -viksi, giving ylittäviksi.

Etymologically, the base is ylittä-, from ylittää, with the present active participle suffix -vä to yield ylittävä (exceeding). The translative plural suffix -ksi(-) with the consonant-friendly form produces ylittäviksi. The result conveys a sense of becoming of or being treated as exceeding, typically within formal or technical language.

Usage and scope are specialized. Ylittäviksi appears primarily in formal, technical, or legal texts rather than in everyday speech. It can function in constructions where a noun phrase is described as being regarded as exceeding a threshold, limit, or category, often in documentation, policy language, or descriptive specifications.

In summary, ylittäviksi is a technical Finnish form that expresses the idea of “becoming/exceeding” in the plural translative, derived from ylittää and its participial stem. It exemplifies how Finnish uses translative forms to denote change of state in a plural, context-dependent way.

See also: Finnish grammar, translative case, present active participle, ylittää.