venyttyessä
Venyttyessä is a Finnish grammatical form used to express a condition or circumstance in which something is stretched or is in a stretched state. It is an inessive form of a present or passive participle derived from the verb venyä or venyttää, and it functions to introduce subordinate clauses that describe accompanying conditions in descriptive or technical prose. In practice, venyttyessä translates roughly to “when [it is] stretched” or “in the stretched state.”
Venyttyessä is typically found in neutral or formal contexts, such as descriptions of materials, textiles, mechanical
- Kangas venyttyessä menettää muotonsa. (When the fabric is stretched, it loses its shape.)
- Kumi venyttyessä pituus kasvaa. (As the rubber is stretched, its length increases.)
Venyttyessä has a technical or descriptive register and may appear in manuals, scientific texts, or engineering
Related adverbial participle forms exist to express similar ideas with slightly different nuance, such as venytyksessä