piirtävän

Piirtävän is the genitive singular form of the present active participle piirtävä, which is derived from the verb piirtää meaning “to draw.” As a present active participle, piirtävä functions primarily as an adjective describing a person who draws or something connected to the act of drawing. The form piirtävän appears when the participle is inflected to agree with a noun in genitive case, often in phrases that express possession or association.

Usage and examples:

- piirtävän opettajan ohjeet translates to “the instructions of the drawing teacher,” with piirtävän in genitive singular agreeing with opettajan.

- piirtävän taiteilijan työt means “the works of the drawing artist,” again using the genitive singular of the participle to modify the noun in a possessive sense.

- In a simpler attributive use, the base form piirtävä can appear directly before a noun, as in piirtävä ihminen meaning “a person who draws.”

Formation and related forms:

- The present active participle is formed with the suffix -va/-vä attached to the verb stem (piirtää → piirtävä).

- The genitive singular form of the participle is piirtävän.

- Other case forms of the participle mirror normal adjective declension: nominative piirtävä, partitive piirtävää, and plural forms such as piirtävät (nominative plural) or piirtävien (genitive plural), depending on grammatical context.

- This participle is typically used as an adjective; a corresponding noun indicating the person who draws is piirtäjä (drawer/illustrator). The participle stresses the action (drawing) rather than the occupational role.

Etymology and relation to other forms:

- Piirtävän derives from piirtää with the present active participle suffix -va/-vä. It is distinct from noun forms like piirtäjä, which designate a person by occupation, while piirtävä emphasizes the activity.