suunnittelemaan

Suunnittelemaan is the -maan/-mään infinitive form of the Finnish verb suunnitella, meaning to plan or to design. In Finnish grammar it is the infinitive of purpose, used to express the action that someone is going to perform as part of another activity or movement.

Common usage is with verbs of motion or intention, where suunnittelemaan indicates what one is going to do as part of the purpose of the action. For example, Mennä suunnittelemaan matkaa means “to go to plan a trip,” and Hän tuli suunnittelemaan uutta ohjelmaa means “He came to plan a new program.” In such constructions the object of the planning action is typically in the partitive case, as in matkaa or ohjelmaa.

The suunnittelemaan form contrasts with the bare perusinfinitiivi suunnitella, which describes planning as an activity in a more general or non-purposive sense. For instance, Aion suunnitella projektia uses the basic infinitive to state the plan itself, while Miten mennä suunnittelemaan... uses the purpose form to indicate the goal of the motion.

Other notes: suunittelemaan can also appear with verbs like aloittaa or ryhtyä to emphasize the start of planning activities, e.g., ryhtyä suunnittelemaan. As a noun, the concept of planning is typically expressed with suunnittelu or suunnitteleminen, while suunnittelemaan remains a verb form used in purposive constructions.

In summary, suunnittelemaan is the purposive infinitive of suunnitella, used to denote the act of planning/designing undertaken as part of another action, often following verbs of motion and accompanied by partitive objects.