päättyvänä

Päättyvänä is a Finnish grammatical form that derives from the verb päästäytyä? Actually from päättyä, meaning "to end." It is the essive singular form of the present active participle päättyvä, which translates roughly as “ending” or “in the process of ending.” As an essive form, päättyvänä conveys a temporary state: it describes something that is in the state of ending or ongoing toward an end, roughly “as it is ending” or “in the ending phase.”

Morphology and formation

Päättyvä is the present active participle (PAP) of päättyä. When declined, its essive singular form is päättyvänä. Other related forms include nominative singular päättyvä, genitive päättyvän, partitive päättyvää, and essive plural päättyvinä. The corresponding translative form is päättyväksi. The essive form, like other essives, expresses a temporary or conditional state rather than a permanent property.

Usage

Päättyvänä is most common in written Finnish, particularly in formal, literary, or technical contexts, where descriptions of processes or states in progress are appropriate. It is less frequent in everyday speech, where speakers may prefer constructions such as loppumassa (in the process of ending) or on loppumassa (is ending). Päättyvänä can modify nouns or appear in adverbial phrases to indicate that something is in the final phase.

Relation to related forms

Päättyvä is the base present active participle. Päättynyt is the corresponding past participle (having ended). The essive form päättyvänä provides a way to express temporary, ongoing states related to ending without turning the clause into a completed description.

See also

Finnish grammar, present active participles, essive case, translative case.