kiemurteleviksi

Kiemurteleviksi is a Finnish grammatical form—the translative plural form of kiemurtelevä, meaning undulating or serpentine. It expresses a change of state or condition, indicating that something has become winding or sinuous. The form is used as a predicative complement after verbs that denote change, most commonly muuttua (to become) or tehdä (to make into).

In practice kiemurteleviksi appears with a subject in the nominative and the verb in a past or present tense, followed by kiemurteleviksi as the translative predicative. For example: Polut muuttuivat kiemurteleviksi. (The paths became winding.) Tie muuttui kiemurtelevaksi. (The road became serpentine.) Kuvioiden reunat muuttuivat kiemurteleviksi. (The edges of the patterns became undulating.) These examples show how the plural form kiemurteleviksi is used when the subject is plural, while the singular kiemurtelevaksi is used with singular subjects.

Etymology and usage notes: kiemurteleviksi is formed from kiemurtelevä (undulating) plus the translative suffix -ksi, with the plural ending -viksi in front of the -si cluster. The form is primarily a grammatical tool in descriptive Finnish, used in prose and formal writing to convey a transformation into a winding state. It is not a separate lexical item but a inflected variant of kiemurtelevä for predicative use.

See also: kiemurtelevä, translative case, Finnish grammar, predicative adjectives.