lyhentyvään

lyhentyvään is the genitive past passive participle of the Finnish verb lyhentyä. Lyhentyä itself means "to shorten" or "to become shorter." Therefore, lyhentyvään describes something that was in the process of shortening or had become shorter, viewed in relation to something else.

The genitive case in Finnish often indicates possession or a relationship. In the context of a participle, the genitive form can express that the shortening happened to a specific entity or that the shortening is being discussed in relation to that entity. For example, "puun lyhentyvään oksaan" could translate to "to the branch of the tree that was shortening."

The past passive participle form indicates an action that has been completed or is in a state resulting from a completed action. Combined with the genitive, lyhentyvään points to a past state of becoming shorter, viewed from a particular perspective. Its usage is relatively specific and depends heavily on the surrounding grammatical context within a Finnish sentence. It is not a standalone word that can be used in isolation.