muodostavien

Muodostavien is a Finnish grammatical term referring to a specific inflected form of the present active participle. The base verb is muodostaa, meaning to form or to compose, and the present active participle muodostava means forming. In Finnish grammar, present active participles function as adjectives and agree with the noun they modify in number and case. Muodostavien is the genitive plural form of muodostava, and it appears in phrases where the participle describes a plural noun that is in the genitive case or in other contexts requiring genitive agreement.

Morphology and usage

As an inflected participial form, muodostavien follows the standard patterns for participle adjectives in Finnish. The form muodostavien specifically marks genitive plural, enabling the participle to modify nouns in compounds or phrases that require the genitive. Other related forms of the same participle include muodostavan (genitive singular) and muodostavaa (partitive singular), among others, illustrating how the participle flexes to agree with different nouns and grammatical roles.

Function in text

Muodostavien is largely found in linguistic descriptions, grammars, dictionaries, and technical Finnish prose. It is not a common everyday word by itself, but it demonstrates how Finnish uses participial adjectives to express attributes like “forming” in relation to plural nouns. In analysis, it helps illustrate agreement, case marking, and the role of participles in predicate and modifier positions.

Examples

- muodostavien sanojen taivutus

- muodostavien ilmaisujen käyttö

See also

Finnish grammar, present active participle, muodostaa.