asiantuntevaan

Asiantuntevaan is a Finnish grammatical form of the adjective asiantunteva, which means knowledgeable or expert. The form is an illative singular form, used in contexts where the adjective is inflected to indicate movement toward or into something described by the adjective. In practice, asiantuntevaan appears mainly in linguistic examples and language-learning materials to illustrate how adjectives can take case endings in Finnish.

In ordinary Finnish usage, adjectives normally agree with the nouns they modify in number and case, but the illative form of adjectives is not common in everyday speech. When speakers want to refer to an expert more naturally, they typically use the noun asiantuntija (expert) or construct a noun phrase such as asiantunteva henkilö (an expert person) rather than relying on the illative inflection of the adjective alone.

The existence of asiantuntevaan as a form is therefore primarily of interest to students of Finnish grammar and linguists studying adjective declension and case endings. It demonstrates how Finnish can extend inflection patterns to adjectives in certain grammatical contexts, though its practical occurrence outside of instructional material is limited.

See also: asiantunteva, asiantuntija, Finnish grammar, Illative case.