muotoilevissa

Muotoilevissa is the inessive plural form of the present active participle muotoileva, which comes from the verb muotoilla meaning to shape, form, or design. In Finnish, participles can function as adjectives and modify nouns. The form muotoilevissa is used when the modified noun is plural and in the inessive case, indicating “in shaping contexts” or “in the shaping ones.”

Morphology and usage: Muotoileva behaves like an adjective and agrees with the noun it modifies in number and case. When the noun is plural and in the inessive case, the participle takes the form muotoilevissa. This construction is common in technical, design, and engineering language to describe processes, plans, or systems involved in shaping or form-making.

Examples:

- muotoilevissa prosesseissa: in shaping processes

- muotoilevissa suunnitelmissa: in shaping plans

- muotoilevissa järjestelmissä: in shaping systems

In Finnish text, muotoilevissa allows precise labeling of contexts where shaping or design activities occur, without creating a separate noun phrase. It is typically used in formal or technical writing and tends to appear in discussions about design-oriented approaches, production workflows, or methodological contexts.

Notes: muotoilevissa is an inflected form, not a standalone noun. Its use requires a plural inessive noun to which it attaches. For non-participial adjectival usage or different cases, other inflected forms of muotoileva would be used.

See also: Finnish grammar, participles, muotoilla.