tihenevään

Tihenevän is a Finnish present participle form meaning “that is becoming thicker” or “that is growing denser.” It is used as an attributive participle to describe a noun in the process of thickening, most often in contexts such as weather phenomena, smoke, or crowds. The form signals an ongoing change rather than a completed state.

Etymology and morphology: the word is derived from the adjective tiheä (dense) and the verb tiheentyä (to thicken). As a participle, tihenevän appears in the genitive singular when modifying a following noun, for example: tihenevän usvan (the fog that is thickening) or tihenevän savun (the smoke that is thickening). This usage is common in written Finnish, especially in descriptive prose and meteorological descriptions.

Usage: tihenevän is used to convey gradual change in density. It appears in factual or literary texts to depict processes such as fog or mist thickening, smoke accumulating, or crowds gathering more densely. It is typically found in contexts where the speaker or writer wants to emphasize an ongoing development rather than a finished state. In everyday speech, simpler adjectives or present participles may be preferred, but tihenevän remains standard in more formal or narrative writing.

Related terms and notes: related concepts include tiheä (dense), tiheentyä (to thicken), and tiheys (density). Related weather terms include usva (mist), sumu (fog), and savu (smoke). The form is part of Finnish participle morphology and may appear in various sentence positions where a dynamic description of density is appropriate.

See also: usva, sumu, savu, tiheys, tiheentyä. References: standard Finnish dictionaries (e.g., Kielitoimisto) describe the participle tiheentyvä/tihenevä forms and their use in attributive position.