lieventäviin

Lieventäviin is the illative plural form of the Finnish adjective lieventävä, meaning mitigating. It is used to describe nouns in the illative case that refer to factors, measures, or circumstances that mitigate or lessen severity or responsibility. The form is most common in formal, legal, or administrative language.

Morphology and usage: The base verb lieventää means “to mitigate.” From this, the present participle/adjective lieventävä is formed. In Finnish, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number and case. For plural nouns in the illative case, the adjective takes the ending -iin, producing lieventäviin: lieventäviin seikkoihin, lieventäviin toimenpiteisiin, and similar combinations.

Usage in sentences: The construction is relatively formal. Common collocations include lieventäviin seikkoihin vedotaan (they invoke mitigating factors), lieventäviin toimenpiteisiin ryhdyttiin (they undertook mitigating measures), and lieventäviin perusteisiin perustuva päätös (a decision based on mitigating grounds).

Notes: Lieventäviin appears primarily in legal, regulatory, or bureaucratic writing and may sound archaic or overly formal in everyday Finnish. It is one of several inflected forms of lieventävä used to connect a descriptive noun phrase with its context in illative plural. Related terms include lieventävä (the base form) and lieventäminen (mitigation).