Asetettavien

Asetettavien is a Finnish grammatical form that functions as the genitive plural of the participial adjective asetettava, meaning “to be placed” or “to be arranged.” It is used to describe nouns by indicating that the referenced items are those that must be placed, arranged, or established in the future. The form typically appears within noun phrases in which both the possessive or dependent noun and the participial modifier are in the genitive, a common pattern in Finnish for describing qualifying conditions or tasks.

Morphology and usage: Asetettavien is the genitive plural form of asetettava. In practice it is used as an attributive part of a noun phrase to mark items that are yet to be set or determined. Examples include phrases like asetettavien tehtävien lista (the list of tasks to be set/assigned) or asetettavien ehtojen mukaan (in accordance with the conditions to be set). The construction is common in formal writing, administrative texts, and technical or procedural documents where future arrangements are described.

Distinctions: Asetettavien is related to other -ttava participles in Finnish, which express “to be X” or “to be done,” but it should not be confused with asettavat or asetettavat, which have different grammatical roles or meanings. Asetettavien is specifically the genitive plural form used for qualifying nouns in contexts that refer to things that must be placed or established.

See also: Finnish grammar, participles, -ttava participles.