keräävä

Keräävä is a Finnish adjective formed from the verb kerätä, meaning to collect or gather. As the present active participle, it describes something or someone that collects or tends to accumulate. In practice, keräävä can modify a noun to indicate an ongoing collecting action or a characteristic related to gathering, for example keräävä toiminta (collecting activity) or keräävä henkilö (a person who collects).

In usage, keräävä is typically used as an attributive or predicative descriptor and agrees with the noun it modifies in number and case, following ordinary Finnish adjective inflection. The form changes according to grammatical context, with common base forms such as keräävä, keräävän, keräävää, etc.

Etymologically, keräävä is the present active participle suffixing of kerätä (to collect). Related words include keräys (collection or collecting act), kerääminen (the act of collecting), and kerääjä (collector). The participle can also appear in compounds or phrases to convey a sense of ongoing gathering. While keräävä is primarily a grammatical form, it can appear in technical or descriptive prose to characterize processes, systems, or behaviors that involve collecting or accumulation.

See also: keräys, kerääjä, keräily, kerätä. These terms cover the broader concept of collecting and related roles or activities in Finnish language and discourse.