päätyvä

Päätyvää is a Finnish linguistic term referring to a specific form of the present active participle. It is the partitive singular form of the participle päätyvä, which is derived from the verb päätyä meaning to end up or to terminate. In Finnish grammar, the present active participle forms adjectives that describe ongoing or resultant states related to the action of the verb.

As a participle, päätyvä behaves like an adjective and thus agrees with the noun it modifies in number and case. The partitive singular form, päätyvää, is used when the object of the sentence or clause is indefinite or required to be in the partitive due to syntactic context. The form can appear in noun phrases such as päätyvää prosessia or päätyvä tilanne, depending on what is being described. In grammar references, the participle is discussed as part of the broader -va/-vä participle system that creates adjectives from verbs to express ongoing or resultant aspects of action.

Etymologically, päätyvää is built from the verb stem pääty- attached to the present active participle suffix -vä, with the standard partitive ending -ä to yield -vää in the singular. The construction mirrors other Finnish participles of this type and fits within the general pattern of attributive and predicative use for present active participles.

In everyday Finnish, the present active participle (including the form päätyvää) is relatively rare outside linguistic or descriptive contexts. It is more commonly discussed in grammar and language description than used in ordinary prose, where simpler expressions are typically preferred.