kieltävää

Kieltävää is a grammatical form in Finnish derived from the verb kieltää, meaning to deny or to forbid. Specifically, it is the partitive singular form of the present active participle kieltävä, which functions as an adjective or a modifier describing something that denies or forbids. As a participle, kieltävä can describe actions, statements, or things associated with denial or prohibition.

In Finnish, present active participles are formed with the suffix -vä/-vä and decline like adjectives. The base form kieltävä denotes a denying or forbidding quality. The form kieltavaa is the partitive singular, used when the modified noun is in the partitive case or when the action is described in a partial sense. Other case forms follow standard Finnish declension patterns, for example kieltävän (genitive), kieltäviä (plural partitive), and so on.

Usage and nuance: kieltävää typically functions as an attributive modifier, much like other adjectives or participles. Examples include phrases such as kieltävä vastaus (a denying/forbidding answer) and kieltävää väitettä (a claim that denies). The sense conveyed depends on context: it may describe an act of denial, a policy that forbids something, or a statement characterized by denial.

Relation to related terms: kieltävä is related to the verb kieltää (to deny/forbid) and to other participial forms such as kielletty (forbidden; passive participle). It is distinct from nouns like kielto (ban) and from forms that express prohibition in a more general sense.

See also: kieltää, kielto, kielletty.