viimeisteleviä

Viimeisteleviä is a Finnish present active participle form derived from the verb viimeistellä, meaning to finish or complete. As a participle, it acts like an adjective or a noun modifier and is used to describe ongoing finishing or finalizing actions in relation to a noun. The base participle is viimeistelevä, and viimeisteleviä is one of its inflected forms, typically occurring when the noun it modifies is in the plural partitive or in other cases that require the participle to take a corresponding ending.

In practice, viimeisteleviä is most often found in noun phrases that refer to tasks, processes, or works that are in the finishing stage. It conveys meaning similar to “finishing” or “finalizing” in English, but with Finnish grammar that marks number and case on the participle itself. For example, in a phrase like viimeisteleviä töitä, the word group means “finishing tasks” (tasks that are in the finishing phase) and the noun töitä is in the partitive case. Similarly, viimeisteleviä prosesseja would translate to “finishing processes” in the partitive plural.

The form is primarily used in descriptive or technical language, such as project reports, manufacturing descriptions, or process documentation, where it is natural to speak of stages and activities in the ongoing finishing phase. As a grammatical form, viimeisteleviä is not a standalone lexical item but a declined participial form that modifies a noun rather than a fixed noun itself.

See also: present active participle (Finnish grammar) and vaikuttava participial phrase construction in Finnish.