tapahtuvien

Tapahtuvien is a Finnish grammatical form that serves as the genitive plural of the present active participle tapahtuva. The participle is derived from the verb tapahtua, meaning to occur or to happen. In Finnish, present active participles function like adjectives and are used to describe nouns, indicating that the described objects or phenomena occur or take place.

Usage of tapahtuva can be seen in noun phrases to express “occurring” or “that occur.” For example, the phrase tapahtuvien ilmiöiden tutkimus means “the study of occurring phenomena” or “the phenomena that occur.” Because tapahtuva is a participle, its ending changes with case and number to agree with the noun it modifies. Tapahtuvien is specifically the genitive plural form used to indicate possession or association with a plural noun: for example, tutkimus tapahtuvien ilmiöiden (the study of the phenomena that occur).

Grammar notes and related forms: The base form is tapahtuva (present active participle). Other common forms include tapahtuvat (nominative plural), tapahtuvan (genitive singular), and tapahtuvaa (partitive singular). The genitive plural ending -ien is typical for this class of participles in Finnish.

Etymology: The form builds from tapahtua and its related noun tapahtuma, meaning event or occurrence. The participle extends the meaning to describe things related to occurring events or processes.

In summary, tapahtuvien is a genitive plural participial form used to describe or relate to occurrences, typically appearing in noun phrases within Finnish scholarly or descriptive writing. See also tapahtua and tapahtuma for related morphological and semantic context.