ilmentäviin

Ilmentäviin is a Finnish grammatical form, not a standalone lexical entry. It functions as the illative plural form of the adjective ilmentävä, meaning disease-causing or illness-inducing. In practice, ilmentäviin appears in noun phrases to refer to a group of agents or factors that cause disease, especially in scientific or technical writing.

Morphology and derivation: ilmentäviin is formed from the stem ilmentä- with the adjective ending ilmentävä and the illative plural suffix -iin. The illative case expresses movement toward or into something, so ilmentäviin tekijöihin would translate roughly as “into disease-causing factors/agents.” The construction is primarily grammatical and descriptive rather than a common everyday word.

Usage: The term is relatively rare in everyday Finnish and is mainly encountered in specialized texts, such as epidemiology, microbiology, or theoretical discussions of disease mechanisms. It is used attributively to modify a noun in the illative plural, often referring collectively to pathogens or other disease-causing contributors.

Examples:

- Tutkimus keskitti huomionsa ilmentäviin tekijöihin, kuten bakteereihin ja viruksiin.

- Ilmentäviin mekanismeihin liittyvät tutkimukset ovat keskeisiä tartuntatautien ennaltaehkäisyssä.

See also: ilmentävä, ilmentää, illative case, Finnish grammar, epidemiology terminology.

Notes: Because ilmentäviin is a highly specialized inflected form, it may not appear in general dictionaries. Its meaning is closely tied to the adjective ilmentävä and the context in which disease-caasing factors are discussed.