sisältäviä

sisältäviä is a Finnish language form derived from the verb sisältää, meaning “to contain.” Grammatically it functions as a present active participle in the plural partitive case, and it can also appear in the plural nominative when used attributively. As a participle, sisältäviä modifies nouns and conveys the idea that the referent possesses or holds something within it.

Formation follows the standard pattern for present active participles. The stem sisältä- is combined with the suffix -va/‑vä, yielding sisältävä (singular) and its plural forms sisältävät. The partitive plural adds the ending -i, resulting in sisältäviä. This ending agrees with the case, number, and, to a limited extent, the animacy of the noun it modifies.

In usage, sisältäviä commonly appears in relative clauses or as a pre‑modifier: esimerkiksi, “Kirjat, joissa on sisältäviä kuvia, ovat suosittuja” (Books that contain images are popular). It can also be employed in nominalized constructions: “Elintarvikkeet, jotka ovat sisältäviä lisäaineita, on merkitty” (Foodstuffs containing additives are labeled).

The participial form is part of a broader system of Finnish participles that can express ongoing or characteristic actions. Compared with the infinitive or finite verb forms, sisältäviä provides a compact way to embed the notion of containment directly into noun phrases without introducing a subordinate clause.

Related Finnish participles include pureva (boiling), juokseva (running), and kirjoittava (writing). Understanding sisältäviä therefore aids learners in grasping Finnish participial morphology and the flexible way the language encodes descriptive information within noun phrases.