juoksevaa

Juoksevaa is the partitive singular form of the Finnish present active participle juokseva, which means “running” or “flowing.” The participle comes from the verb juosta, meaning to run, and, in Finnish, present active participles function as adjectives describing a continuing action or state.

In Finnish grammar, the present active participle is declined like an adjective and agrees with the noun it modifies in number and case. The base form juokseva is used in nominative singular, while juoksevaa is the partitive singular form used with nouns in partitive. For example, juoksevaa vettä means “running water,” with vettä in the partitive case. Other related forms include juokseva virta (nominative singular “a running current”) and juoksevat in the nominative plural or juoksevia in the partitive plural, reflecting standard adjective-like declension patterns.

Common usage of juoksevaa is to describe things that are currently flowing or moving in a continuous sense, especially liquids, streams, or other phenomena that can be envisioned as running. The construction typically appears when the noun is indefinite or mass-oriented, which is why the partitive case is often used with juoksevaa vettä rather than a definite nominative form.

The form also appears in literary or descriptive contexts to convey continuous action or state, and it can function in a broader metaphorical sense beyond physical movement.

See also: Finnish present participles, Finnish grammar, adjective declension, partitive case.