ylittävän

Ylittävän is the genitive singular form of the Finnish present active participle ylittävä, which comes from the verb ylittää meaning to surpass, exceed, or go beyond. In usage, ylittävän functions as an attributive participle that describes a noun in a genitive context. It does not stand alone as a separate lexical item; rather, it forms phrases such as ylittävän rajan, ylittävän määrän, or ylittävän ajanjakson.

Morphology and usage: The participle ylittävä is declined like an adjective in Finnish. In the genitive singular, the form is ylittävän, used before a noun in genitive to express “of/that exceeds” something. For example, ylittävän rajan (of the exceeding limit), ylittävän määrän (of the exceeding amount), or ylittävän ajanjakson (of the exceeding period). The base lemma is ylittävä, and other related forms include ylittäminen (the act of surpassing) and ylittävä (present participle used attributively or predicatively in different contexts).

Contexts and nuance: Ylittävän is common in formal, technical, or legal writing where thresholds, limits, or time spans are described as exceeding a reference point. It conveys a sense of something that goes beyond a defined boundary, rather than merely “exceeding” in ordinary speech.

See also: ylittävä as the base participle; ylittäminen as the noun form for the act of surpassing; ylittää as the verb (to surpass, to exceed).

In summary, ylittävän is a grammatical form used to indicate that a noun in genitive is surpassing or exceeding a reference limit, and it appears primarily in formal Finnish to describe thresholds, amounts, or periods that exceed defined criteria.