painottaviin

Painottaviin is a Finnish inflected word form derived from the verb painottaa (to emphasize) via the present participle painottava (emphasizing). Morphologically it combines the participial stem painottav- with the plural illative ending -iin, yielding painottaviin. The illative plural expresses direction into or towards plural targets and is typically translated as "into the ...", "to the ...", or "toward the ... (that emphasize)".

In usage painottaviin most commonly appears as an attributive modifier before a noun in an illative plural phrase, for example: "siirrytään painottaviin toimenpiteisiin" (we move to measures that emphasize ...) or "koulutusohjelma suuntautuu painottaviin osa-alueisiin" (the training program is directed toward emphasis areas). It therefore functions to locate action or movement toward multiple entities characterized by emphasis.

As a grammatical form it agrees with a plural noun in the illative case and is not typically used in isolation; its meaning depends on the noun it modifies and context. Close synonyms in many contexts include korostaviin (from korostaa, to stress) or painotettuihin (a passive participle variant). The term appears in educational, policy and technical texts where shifts in priority or emphasis are described.