oikaisevaan

Oikaisevaan is a Finnish grammatical form: the illative singular of the present active participle oikaiseva, which itself comes from the verb oikaista, meaning to straighten, correct, or adjust. As an adjective, oikaiseva describes something that rectifies or makes corrections. When inflected into the illative case, oikaisevaan expresses direction toward a corrective form or mode, roughly translating to “into a rectifying/corrective form.”

Usage of oikaisevaan occurs primarily in formal, technical, or editing language where processes or documents are described as being converted into a corrective form. It is most commonly found in noun phrases such as oikaisevaan muotoon (“into a corrective form”) or in similar constructs, rather than in everyday speech. Its use signals a focus on correction or adjustment rather than mere description.

Morphology: Oikaiseva is the present active participle of oikaista. The illative singular suffix -an attaches to the adjective stem to yield oikaisevaan. Other case forms of oikaiseva exist for attributive or predicative use, such as oikaiseva (nominative) or oikaisevan (genitive), depending on grammatical role in the sentence.

See also: Finnish grammar; illative case; present active participle; oikaista.