keskeneräistä

Keskeneräistä is a Finnish adjective form meaning unfinished or incomplete. It is the partitive singular form of keskeneräinen, which describes something that has not yet been completed or is still in progress. The word is used to express incompleteness in contexts where the partitive case is required or where the emphasis is on the ongoing nature of the condition.

In practice, keskeneräistä appears in predicative clauses and phrases that denote an amount or extent of incompleteness. For example, in the sentence Töitä on vielä keskeneräistä, the phrase means there is still unfinished work. It can also modify a noun in the partitive: hankkeesta löytyy keskeneräistä työtä, or simply hankkeessa on keskeneräistä työtä. The form can be used with other nouns in the partitive to indicate partial, not yet finished content.

Grammatical notes: keskeneräistä is a inflected form used where partitive is required or preferred. The corresponding nominative form is keskeneräinen (unmodified state: unfinished). The translative form would be keskeneräiseksi to express a change into an unfinished state. The related noun form is keskeneräisyys, meaning the state or quality of being unfinished.

See also: keskeneräisyys (incompleteness), valmis (finished), valmistua (to become finished). The term is commonly used in everyday language, writing, and reporting to describe work, projects, or processes that have not yet reached completion.