menestyvään

Menestyvän is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective menestyvä, meaning "successful." The word is used when the adjective describes a noun in the genitive case, for example in phrases like menestyvän yrityksen voitto, meaning the profit of the successful company. The base adjective menestyvä is declined to agree with the noun in number and case.

Morphology and forms: Finnish adjectives follow the same declension patterns as nouns when agreeing with a noun. Relevant forms include nominative singular menestyvä, partitive singular menestyvää, genitive singular menestyvän, nominative plural menestyvät, and genitive plural menestyvien. In a genitive phrase, both the noun and the qualifying adjective take the genitive ending, as in menestyvän yrityksen.

Usage and context: Menestyvä and its inflected forms are common in standard Finnish writing and speech, particularly in business, journalism, and formal prose. The genitive form menestyvän is specifically used when a noun it describes is in genitive, or when forming compound-like noun phrases that express possession or association.

Origin and meaning: The adjective is formed from the noun menestys (success) with the adjectival suffix -vä, producing a word that conveys the quality of being successful. As a result, menestyvän conveys the sense of “of the successful” or “the successful [one’s] …” when linked to a genitive noun.

See also: menestyvä, menestys, menestyä.