verenkiertävän

Verenkiertävän is a Finnish adjective form related to the noun verenkierto, meaning circulation. The word as such belongs to the class of adjectives that describe something pertaining to circulation, typically of the blood or other fluids. In ordinary usage, verenkiertävä describes a circulating or circulatory characteristic, and verenkiertävän is its genitive singular form used when the adjective modifies a noun in the genitive case.

In practice, verenkiertävän is used to indicate possession or association with circulation. For example, in a phrase like verenkiertävän järjestelmän toiminta, the adjective verenkiertävän is in genitive singular to agree with the noun järjestelmän (genitive of järjestelmä, system). Such constructions are common in scientific, medical, and technical Finnish, where the relationship to circulation is being specified.

Etymologically, verenkiertävä is formed from verenkierto (circulation, blood circulation) plus the adjectival suffix -vä, which yields a descriptor meaning circulating or circulatory. The corresponding noun form for the concept is verenkierto, while verenkiertävä describes the attribute, and verenkiertävän marks the genitive form of that attribute.

Notes on usage: verenkiertävän can only function as an inflected adjective form, not as an independent noun. Its meaning depends on the noun it modifies; common pairings include phrases where the noun is in a related case, such as verenkiertävän järjestelmän, verenkiertävän verenkierron, or similar constructs in Finnish prose.