syventävistä

Syventävistä is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective syventävä, which means in-depth or advanced. The base sense is used to describe content that deepens understanding, often in educational or scholarly contexts.

In Finnish grammar, syventävä declines to reflect number, case, and definiteness. The form syventävistä is the elative plural form, used when the modifier describes a plural noun in the elative case (often related to “from” or “about” in Finnish syntax). Because Finnish adjectives agree with the nouns they modify, the exact form changes with case and number; syventävien (genitive plural) or syventäviä (partitive plural) are other common inflected forms.

Usage and meaning

Syventävää describes material aimed at increasing depth of knowledge. It is widely used in education to label advanced or specialized content, such as syventävä kurssi (an advanced course) or syventävät opinnot (advanced studies). The plural elative form syventävistä appears in phrases where the sentence indicates “from/around about in-depth topics” or when describing multiple in-depth topics in a particular grammatical role.

Context and nuance

The term signals a shift from basic coverage toward more detailed exploration and critical analysis. It is more frequent in formal, academic, or curriculum-related language than in everyday speech. Understanding its inflected forms helps in interpreting sentences where the modifier aligns with a plural noun in different grammatical cases.

See also

syventävä; syventävät opinnot; syventävät kurssit.