haihtuvilla

Haihtuvilla is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the verb haihtua, meaning to evaporate or fade away. It is the present participle haihtuva used in its plural adessive form. In Finnish, participles can take cases to function as adjectives in noun phrases, so haihtuvilla describes entities or phenomena that are evaporating, fading, or otherwise readily becoming a gas or disappearing in a given context. The form is most common in descriptive or technical prose.

Etymology and form: haihtuva is the present active participle of haihtua. Adding the adessive plural ending -lla yields haihtuvilla, which marks a context or state associated with multiple referents. This construction signals that the property of evaporation or volatility is present for the referents in that setting, rather than providing a standalone noun.

Usage: Haihtuvilla is primarily encountered in scientific, technical, or descriptive Finnish. It can describe volatile substances, vapors, or processes that are actively undergoing evaporation. In everyday language, speakers more often use haihtuvat or haihtuva for a simpler expression, but haihtuvilla appears in contexts where the adessive construction emphasizes the referents’ state within a described scene.

Translations and nuance: The closest English equivalents are evaporating or volatile, depending on context. The phrase can be rendered as “with evaporating substances” or, more fluidly in English, “volatile substances.” The choice depends on whether the emphasis is on the ongoing process or the inherent property of the referents.