sääteleviä

Sääteleviä is the partitive plural form of the Finnish adjective säätelevä, meaning regulating or regulatory. It is a grammatical form used to modify nouns in contexts where the noun is in partitive case or partitive meaning, common in legal, administrative, and policy-related language.

Morphology and grammar: Finnish adjectives decline to agree with the noun they describe in number and case. When the head noun is in partitive plural, the adjective takes the corresponding partitive plural form, here sääteleviä. The base adjective säätelevä comes from the stem säätelev-, itself derived from the verb säätää “to regulate” or related forms, with the -ä ending typical for adjectives in its basic form. The -iä ending marks the partitive plural for this adjective.

Usage: Sääteleviä is typically used to describe nouns that denote rules, laws, or actions that regulate. It frequently appears in legal, regulatory, or policy discussions. Examples include sääteleviä lakeja (regulatory laws) and sääteleviä toimintoja (regulatory actions). The form allows speakers to express that the described items function in a regulating capacity or are subject to regulation, while the noun remains in partitive or indefinite form.

See also: Finnish grammar, adjectives, participles, partitive case. The related singular form is säätelevä (regulating/regulatory), and other inflected forms include säätelevien (genitive plural) and sääteleviin (illative plural), among others.