etenevistä
Etenevistä is a Finnish grammatical form. It is the elative plural of the present active participle etenevä, which comes from the verb eteneä meaning “to advance” or “to progress.” In Finnish, participles can decline like adjectives, taking case endings. The elative plural ending -stä/-stä indicates motion from or origin among a group, so etenevistä literally means “from the advancing ones” or “from among those who are advancing.”
The form is most commonly used in literary or formal contexts to specify the source or composition
- Etenevistä is typically found in more written, descriptive, or academic Finnish; in everyday speech, simpler constructions
- It contrasts with other participial forms such as etenevät (present active plural) or eteneviä (partitive plural),
- etenevä
- etenevät
Etenevistä thus illustrates how Finnish uses participial adjectives with case endings to indicate source or association