selviytyvää
Selviytyvää is the partitive singular form of the present active participle selviytyvä, which comes from the verb selviytyä meaning to survive, endure, or manage. As a participle, selviytyvä functions as an adjective describing someone or something that is in the act of surviving or is characterized by resilience. The form selviytyvää is used when the modified noun is in the partitive case, or in constructions that require the partitive, for example after negation or with indefinite quantities.
In standard Finnish, present participles inflect to agree with the noun in number and case. For example:
Common contexts for selviytyvää include reporting on people in danger or disaster, descriptions of communities or
See also: selviytyminen (survival), selviytyjä (survivor), selviytyvä (present active participle). Examples illustrate typical usage: “Selviytyvä mies