kurveilla

Kurveilla is a Finnish verb that means to move along a curved path or to veer. It describes motion that is not along a straight line, such as a vehicle following a winding route, a body bending, or an object curving through space. The term can also be used metaphorically to indicate deviating from a planned straight course, strategy, or argument.

Kurveilla is commonly used in contexts involving movement, design, and analysis. It appears in driving, cycling, aviation, sports, and robotics when emphasizing curves, bends, or changes of direction. In scientific and engineering language, it can refer to geometric or kinematic behavior of objects following curved trajectories. In everyday speech, it conveys both literal curvature and figurative deviation from an intended path.

Esimerkkejä: Auto kurveilee mutkaisella tiellä. Hän kurveilee reitillä toiseen suuntaan. These sentences illustrate the literal sense of curving as well as the figurative sense of changing course.

Etymology: the verb is derived from the Finnish nouns kurvi or käyrä, both meaning a curve, and it uses the standard Finnish verb formation with the -lla/-llä suffix to create an action verb.

See also: käyrä, kurvi, mutka.