vähentäville

Vähentäville is a Finnish present active participle form derived from the verb vähentää, meaning to reduce. In practice it is used as an attributive modifier in noun phrases and conveys the sense of “reducing” or “intended to reduce.” The form is especially common in formal or technical writing when describing actions, measures, or effects aimed at reduction.

In Finnish, present active participles agree with the noun they modify and take appropriate case endings. Vähentäville appears with nouns in cases such as the allative, for example in phrases like vähentäville toimenpiteille (for measures aimed at reducing) or vähentäville vaikutuksille (for effects that reduce). The corresponding base form, vähentävä, would appear in other forms to match the noun’s case and number, such as vähentävät toimenpiteet (measures that reduce) in the nominative plural.

Common usages and contexts include discussions of policy, economics, health, and environment, where actions or strategies are described according to their goal of reducing a cost, risk, or impact. The noun form vähentäminen (reduction) is often used alongside the participle forms to discuss the concept of reduction more generally.

Etymology and related forms: Vähentäville comes from vähentää plus the present active participle suffix, with the morphological ending signaling the relationship to the noun it modifies. Related terms include vähentäminen (reduction) and vähentävä (present active participle in other cases or numbers).

See also: Finnish participles, Finnish grammar, vähentää, vähentäminen.