työskentelevistä

Työskentelevistä is the elative plural form of the present active participle työskentelevä, meaning “working.” In Finnish, participles can be declined like adjectives and used to describe a noun. The suffix -stä marks the elative case in plural, which is used to express “from among,” “of/from,” or, with a following noun, a source or subset. Therefore työskentelevistä typically means “from the working (ones)” or “of the working (ones)” and is most often found in phrases where it modifies a plural noun in the genitive or partitive case, for example työskentelevistä ihmisistä or työskentelevistä naisista.

Usage and nuances:

Työskentelevistä is common in formal or written Finnish, such as statistics, research reports, or journalistic contexts, where a subset of a larger group is described. It is not usually used as a stand-alone noun but as part of a larger noun phrase.

Related forms:

The form contrasts with other participle inflections, such as nominative plural työskentelevät (the working ones) used as the subject, or genitive plural työskentelevien (of the working ones). Other cases (e.g., allative työskenteleville) exist to fit different syntactic roles.

Examples:

- Työskentelevistä ihmisistä koostuva tutkimusryhmä julkaisi tulokset. (A research group composed of people who are working published the results.)

- Keskustelussa viitattiin työskentelevistä naisista kerättyihin tilastoihin. (The discussion referred to statistics collected from women who are working.)

In summary, työskentelevistä is a specific inflected form of a participle used to denote “from the working ones” and to describe subsets of a group in formal Finnish.