juotamalla
Juotamalla is a Finnish grammatical form used to express means or method, roughly equivalent to the English phrase “by drinking.” It operates as an adverbial participle (gerundive) and is formed from the verb juoda (to drink) or, in related derivations, from juottaa (to make drink) by adding the suffix -malla to the verb stem.
The function of juotamalla is to indicate the means by which an action is performed. It is
- Esimerkki: Juotamalla vettä voidaan ehkäistä nestehukkaa. (By drinking water, dehydration can be prevented.)
- The form tends to appear in written Finnish and in contexts where a precise conveyance of method
- Juotamalla is distinct from juomalla, which centers on the act of drinking itself rather than the
In sum, juotamalla functions as a means-focused gerund in Finnish, used mainly in formal writing to express