laskeviin

Laskeviin is a form found in Finnish grammar that relates to the verb laskea, meaning to count or to decrease. It is the illative plural form of the present active participle laskeva and is used to describe a noun with a directional sense, indicating movement toward or belonging to the state characterized by counting or decreasing. The term is more common in written, technical language than in everyday speech.

Morphology and usage patterns are central to understanding laskeviin. It is formed from the stem of laskea plus the present active participle suffix -va to yield laskeva, combined with the illative plural suffix -in to produce laskeviin. In practice, laskeviin appears in phrases that express moving toward a state defined by decreasing numbers or values. Examples include laskeviin lukuiin (into decreasing numbers) and laskeviin arvoihin (into decreasing values). In ordinary speech, speakers often prefer simpler constructions such as a laskeva trendi (a decreasing trend) or other wording that avoids the combined participle plus illative plural.

In linguistic descriptions, laskeviin is noted as an instance of Finnish case and participle interaction, illustrating how illative forms can attach to adjectival participles to create directional phrases. It tends to occur in formal writing, data analysis, or theoretical discussions about Finnish morphology, rather than in casual dialogue. As a result, its practical use is relatively specialized, and many speakers rely on alternative constructions to convey decreasingness.

See also: Finnish grammar, participles, illative case.