jatkuvilla

Jatkuvilla is a Finnish grammatical form, the adessive plural form of the adjective jatkuva, meaning continuous or ongoing. It is used to modify plural nouns in the adessive case to indicate that something applies under ongoing conditions, circumstances, or attributes.

Morphology and usage

In Finnish, adjectives agree with the nouns they describe in number and case. When the noun is plural and in the adessive case, the adjective takes the ending -illa, yielding jatkuvilla. This form commonly appears in formal, administrative, or technical language, where it describes conditions or states that are persistent or continuing.

Examples

- Sopimus solmittiin jatkuvilla ehdoilla. (The contract was concluded under continuous/ongoing terms.)

- Projektiin haettiin rahoitusta jatkuvilla työajoilla. (Funding for the project was sought under ongoing working hours.)

Context and related forms

Jatkuvilla is often found with plural nouns such as ehdoilla (terms), työajoilla (working hours), or muilla similar terms in adessive plural. In other grammatical contexts, the base adjective jatkuva can take other endings to match different cases and numbers. In mathematical and scientific Finnish, the opposite sense of continuous is expressed with jatkuva; when referring to “with continuous functions,” one would typically say jatkuvilla funktioilla, illustrating use with adessive plural as well.

See also

Finnish grammar, adjectives, adessive case, number agreement, Finnish mathematical terminology.