kerääviin

Kerääviin is a Finnish inflected form that derives from the verb kerätä, meaning to collect. It is the illative plural form of the present active participle keräävä, which translates roughly as “collecting” or “gathering.” As a participial adjective, kerääviin functions to describe nouns, but it must agree with the head noun in number and case. In this case, the illative plural ending is -iin, so keräävä becomes kerääviin when the modified noun is plural and in illative case.

Usage and function

Kerääviin is used to describe entities or items involved in collecting, specifically when the described noun is in the illative case (indicating direction toward or into something). Because it is a participial adjective, it does not stand alone as a typical verb; its primary role is to modify a noun within a larger illative phrase. In practical terms, you would encounter kerääviin in specialized or formal contexts, such as descriptive or academic language, rather than everyday speech.

Morphology and related forms

Kerääviin is formed from kerä-, the stem of kerätä, plus the present participle suffix -vä to yield keräävä, then with the illative plural suffix -in to produce kerääviin. Related forms include keräävä (nominative or other cases for the base participle) and keräävien (the genitive plural of the participle). The form follows standard Finnish participle inflection, adapting to case and number like other adjectives.

See also

Finnish grammar, participles, illative case, Finnish adjectives.