tähtäävän

Tähtäävän is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the verb tähtää, meaning to intend, mean, or aim at. It is the genitive singular form of the present active participle tähtäävä, which denotes someone or something that is aiming or intending. As a participle form, tähtäävä behaves like an adjective and agrees with a noun in case, number, and sometimes definiteness. The genitive singular form, tähtäävän, is used when the participle modifies a noun in possessive or genitive constructions.

Formation and usage notes. The present active participle in Finnish is formed with the suffix -va/-vä attached to the verb stem, and its inflected forms follow the same patterns as adjectives. For tähtäävä, common inflections include tä̈htäävan (genitive singular), tä̈htäävää (partitive singular), and so on. In practice, tähtäävä is most often used attributively to describe a noun, while tähtäävän serves to link to another element in a sentence in genitive constructions. The form is relatively formal and can appear in written Finnish, policy texts, or technical descriptions.

Examples.

- Tähtäävän tarkoituksen mukaan toimimme. (We act according to the intended purpose.)

- Tähtäävän suunnitelman toteuttaminen vaatii lisäresursseja. (The implementation of the intended plan requires additional resources.)

- Hän on tähtäävän projektin vastuuhenkilö. (He is the person responsible for the project that intends [to] achieve that goal.)

See also. Related terms include tähtäys (aim, target), tarkoitus (intention), and suunnitelma (plan). Tähtäävän usage emphasizes intention or target in a formal, evaluative sense, rather than immediate action alone.