Hankittavien

Hankittavien is a Finnish grammatical form used to describe items that are planned or intended to be procured. It is the genitive plural form of the present passive participle hankittava, which comes from the verb hankkia, meaning to procure or acquire. In this usage the word functions as an attributive adjective within noun phrases.

In practice, hankittavien appears mainly in formal or bureaucratic language related to procurement, budgeting, or project planning. It describes things that still need to be obtained, not items that have already been acquired. Examples include hankittavien tarvikkeiden määrä (the amount of equipment to be procured) and hankittavien tuotteiden laatu (the quality of the products to be procured). The form is used to agree with the head noun in number and case, typically appearing in sequences where the head noun is in genitive, such as hankittavien tuotteiden hinta (the price of the products to be procured).

Grammatically, hankittavien is not a standalone noun but a participial inflection used as an adjective. It declines like an attributive adjective and changes to reflect the number and case of the noun it modifies. This contrasts with more everyday expressions such as ostettavat tuotteet, which may be used in less formal contexts to convey a similar meaning.

Related terms include hankkia (to procure) and hankinta (procurement). In everyday language, speakers might opt for simpler wording, while hankittavien remains common in official documents and procurement-related discourse.