piirtävien
Piirtävien is a Finnish grammatical form, specifically the genitive plural of the present active participle piirtävä, which comes from the verb piirtää meaning to draw. In Finnish, participles can function as adjectives or as noun-like modifiers, and piirtävien is used when describing or attributing a property to a group of people or things based on drawing.
Usage of piirtävien occurs mainly inside noun phrases in which the participle-modified noun is in a genitive
- Piirtävien forms other than the genitive plural exist in other cases and with different modifiers, but
- In everyday language, speakers may use simpler constructions (such as piirtäjä or people who draw) instead
See also: Finnish grammar, participles, genitive case, noun phrases.