Edellyttävän

Edellyttävän is Finnish, formed as the genitive singular of the active present participle edellyttävä, which comes from the verb edellyttää meaning “to require” or “to necessitate.” As a participle, edellyttävä functions as an adjective and describes something that requires a prerequisite, condition, or obligation. The form edellyttävän is used when the participle phrase modifies a noun in a genitive or appears in a noun phrase where the genitive is needed.

Morphology and usage are typical of Finnish participles: edellyttävä is the base indefinite form; edellyttävän is the genitive singular; other forms include edellyttävä (nominative singular), edellyttävää (partitive singular), edellyttävät (nominative plural), and edellyttävien (genitive plural). The participle agrees with the noun it modifies in number and case, just like an ordinary adjective.

In practice, edellyttävän is common in formal or written Finnish, especially in administrative, legal, educational, and technical texts. It is used to express prerequisites or conditions that impose a requirement on someone or something. A typical usage pattern is to describe the noun as having a requirement: for example, phrases like “edellyttävän kokemuksen omaavaa henkilöstöä” or “käyttöönotto edellyttää edellyttävän koulutuksen suorittamista” convey that a certain level of experience or training is required.

Edellyttävän is distinct from edellytetty (the past passive “required”) and from edellytys (the noun “requirement”). It belongs to a broader set of Finnish participles that function as adjectives and help express qualifications, prerequisites, or conditions in a concise, formal style.

See also: edellytys, edellyttää, edellyttävä.