kieltävien

Kieltävien is the genitive plural form of the Finnish present active participle and adjective kieltävä, which comes from the verb kieltää meaning "to deny" or "to forbid." In grammar, kieltävä denotes something that denies or forbids, and when used in its nominalized genitive plural form, kieltävien refers to those who deny or to acts attributed to such deniers, depending on the context.

In Finnish, participles like kieltävä can function as adjectives or be nominalized. The form kieltävien is typically found in phrases where it modifies another noun in the genitive: for example, kieltävien lausuntojen (statements of those who deny) or kieltävien toimien seuraukset (the consequences of denier-prohibiting actions). The same stem yields other inflected forms for different cases and numbers, but kieltävien is specifically genitive plural.

Nuances to note include the range of meaning: kieltävä can describe a person who denies or a proposition or action that denies or forbids. It is more common in written or formal contexts, including academic or legal language, than in everyday speech. If one needs a more general noun for denial or prohibition, Finnish offers words like kieltäminen (denial) and kielto (ban), which are etymologically related but used in different grammatical constructions than the participial kieltävä.

See also: kieltää, kieltäminen, kielto, kieltävä lause.