voimistavia

Voimistavia is the partitive plural form of the present active participle voimistava, which is derived from the verb voimistaa meaning to strengthen, energize or exercise. In Finnish grammar, -va/-vä forms can function as present active participles or as adjectives describing ongoing or habitual qualities. The form voimistavia appears when the participle modifies a noun in the partitive case, for example voimistavia liikkeitä (exercising movements) or voimistavia vaikutuksia (invigorating or strengthening effects).

The term is commonly used in fitness, rehabilitation, medicine and descriptive prose to indicate something that increases strength, vitality or capability. It can describe physical activities that strengthen the body, medicines or therapies with strengthening effects, or figurative qualities such as voimistavia vaikutuksia in a broader sense, like actions that empower or embolden.

Morphologically, voimistava behaves like other -va/-vä participles. It inflects for number and case, with forms such as voimistava (nominative singular), voimistavat (nominative plural), voimistavaa (partitive singular), voimistavia (partitive plural), and corresponding genitive forms like voimistavan and voimistavien. These inflections allow the word to agree with different nouns in varied syntactic roles.

See also: voimistaa, voimistava, voimistelu, voimistuminen.