ilmeneviä

Ilmeneviä is a Finnish adjective in the plural partitive form of ilmenevä, meaning “emerging” or “apparent.” It is used to describe phenomena, signs, or features that are coming into view or becoming evident. Common collocations include ilmeneviä merkkejä (emerging signs) and ilmeneviä piirteitä (emerging features). In academic and descriptive Finnish, ilmeneviä is often used when observations point to tendencies or patterns that are not yet fully established.

Grammatical note: Finnish adjectives inflect for number and case. The base form ilmenevä corresponds to the singular nominative; in plural partitive, it becomes ilmeneviä (as in ilmeneviä piirteitä). Agreement is with the noun it modifies, and the specific form helps signal the degree of certainty or immediacy of the appearance or emergence.

Etymology and sense: ilmenevä derives from the Finnish verb ilmetä (to become evident or to appear) or, more broadly, from ilmet- roots meaning to reveal or manifest. The term conveys an ongoing process of emergence, often used in science, journalism, and analysis to indicate preliminary findings or observable trends rather than fully established facts.

See also: ilmestyä, ilmetä, ilmestys.