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säilyttämällä

Säilyttämällä is a Finnish verbal form derived from the verb säilyttää, meaning “to preserve” or “to keep.” It is formed with the suffix -malla and functions as an adverbial participle (often described as a gerund-like form) that expresses the means or method by which an action is performed. In English, it is commonly rendered as “by preserving” or “through maintaining.” The form is used to indicate how something is done or under what conditions something occurs, rather than who performs the action.

Säilyttämällä is common in instructional, technical, and formal writing, where the author wants to describe a

Related forms include säilyttäminen, the noun for the act of preservation, and säilytys, which refers more broadly

See also: säilyttäminen, säilytys, säilyttää.

method,
approach,
or
prerequisite.
It
can
introduce
a
clause
at
the
sentence
start:
Säilyttämällä
ruokaa
viileässä
voidaan
estää
pilaantuminen.
It
can
also
function
within
a
clause
to
specify
the
method:
Voit
varmistaa
tiedon
säilyttämisen
säilyttämällä
varmuuskopiot
useammassa
paikassa.
The
construction
often
occurs
with
a
finite
verb
in
the
main
clause
to
express
consequence
or
possibility.
to
storage
or
keeping.
The
gerundial
form
säilyttämällä
is
one
of
several
verbal
forms
used
to
convey
manner
or
mechanism,
and
its
use
can
add
precision
and
nuance
to
instructions,
guidelines,
and
analytic
texts.