tekeillä
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
The adessive plural of tehdä (“to make”) + -e.
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
tekeillä
- in the making (in the process of being made)
Usage notes edit
Other similar formations (from -e derivatives, some of which may not exist as independent nouns):
- kehittää (“to develop”) → kehitteillä (“under development”)
- perustaa (“to found, establish”) → perusteilla (“in the process of being founded”)
- rakentaa (“to build”) → rakenteilla (“under construction”)
- suunnitella (“to plan”) → suunnitteilla (“in the process of being planned”)
Inflection edit
| →○ | allative | tekeille |
|---|---|---|
| ○ | adessive | tekeillä |
| ○→ | ablative | – |
Further reading edit
- “tekeillä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03