juoksevassa

Juoksevassa is a Finnish grammatical form, specifically the inessive singular of the adjective or present participle juokseva, which means running or flowing. The base form juokseva comes from the verb juosta (to run) and denotes something that is in motion or moving. When describing a noun in the inessive case, the adjective takes the form juoksevassa.

In Finnish, adjectives and participles inflect to agree with the noun they modify in number and case. Juoksevassa occurs when the modified noun is in the inessive singular, often translated as “in the running/flowing” [noun]. It is most commonly encountered with liquids or moving subjects, for example water or streams.

Common usage examples include:

- juoksevassa vedessä, meaning “in the running water.”

- juoksevalla joella, meaning “on the running river” or more naturally “on the flowing river.”

The form is typically part of descriptive phrases rather than a standalone word. It can describe phenomena that physically move or flow, such as water, streams, or other liquids, and may also be extended metaphorically in literary Finnish to indicate something that is ongoing or active in a given context.

Related forms include the base juokseva (nominative singular) and other case forms like juoksevan (genitive), juoksefassa (not standard), and equivalents in other cases, which all share the same root meaning. Juoksevassa is thus best understood as a grammatical inflection of juokseva used to describe things that are running or flowing within an inessive syntactic frame.