kertyvää

Kertyvää is a Finnish word-form that functions as the partitive singular of the present active participle of the verb kertyä, meaning to accumulate or to pile up. The present active participle kertyvä describes an ongoing process of accumulation. When declined in the partitive case, the form becomes kertyvää and is used to refer to an indefinite or partial quantity, typically before a mass noun.

Usage and meaning

Kertyvää is used to describe phenomena that are building up or increasing over time. It often occurs with nouns in the partitive case to emphasize the process rather than a finished state. The construction is common in meteorology, daily life, and descriptive prose, where the author wants to highlight ongoing accumulation rather than a completed amount.

Examples

- Talvi toi kertyvää lunta. (Winter brought accumulating snow.)

- Auton tuulilasiin kertyy kertyvää jäätä. (Ice is accumulating on the car windshield.)

- Huoneistoon kertyy kertyvää pölyä, jos ilmanvaihto on huono. (Dust accumulates in the apartment if ventilation is poor.)

Notes

Kertyvää is distinct from adjectival forms derived from other verbs, such as kerätä, which yield different participial forms. Its use signals a processual, non-final state and is typically found before mass nouns in partitive or in predicative constructions with negation or indefiniteness.

See also

Present active participle in Finnish grammar; Partitive case; Kertyä.

This article presents kertyvää as a grammatical form and does not ascribe any unrelated meanings to the word.