Edellytettyjä

Edellytettyjä is a Finnish adjective form derived from the verb edellyttää, meaning to require or to presuppose. It translates roughly as "required" or "necessary" in English and is used to describe things that must be present or conditions that must be met. The form edellytettyjä is the plural partitive form of the past passive participle edellytetty and is used when the modified noun is in partitive or indefinite quantity, or when referring to multiple items in a non-specific way.

In usage, edellytettyjä appears mainly in formal, administrative, or academic writing. It typically describes prerequisites, conditions, or pieces of information that are assumed or required by rules, procedures, or standards. For example: "Hakemukselle edellytettyjä ehtoja ovat muun muassa todistukset koulutuksesta ja henkilöllisyystodistus." or "Tarjouksessa on toimitettava edellytettyjä tietoja, kuten yhteystiedot ja maksutiedot." Such constructions show how the word flags what must be satisfied for a process to proceed.

Morphologically, edellytettyjä is the plural partitive form; the corresponding singular partitive is edellytettyä, and the singular nominative is edellytetty. Finnish adjectives of this type agree with the noun they modify in number and case, following standard Finnish declension patterns.

Related terms include the noun edellytys (prerequisite), the noun vaatimukset (requirements), and the verb edellyttää (to require). Edellytettyjä is often contrasted with stronger terms like pakollisia (mandatory) or välttämättömiä (essential), which convey different degrees of necessity.