Jaettavien

Jaettavien is a Finnish grammatical form used as the genitive plural of the adjective or participle jaettava, meaning “to be divided” or “dividend.” In everyday Finnish, jaettava describes something that can be or should be divided, and jaettava is the base noun-like form in mathematical contexts. The word jaettavien typically appears in phrases that refer to multiple items that are to be divided.

In mathematics, jaettava commonly denotes the dividend—the number that is divided in a division operation. The counterpart term is jakaja, the divisor. The result of the division is osamäärä (the quotient). The phrase jaettavien lukujen joukko, for example, means “the set of numbers to be divided” or “the set of dividends” in a problem or discussion. The term can also appear in discussions about divisibility and properties of numbers when several dividends are considered.

Linguistically, jaettava is a passive participle used as an adjective. It declines like other Finnish adjectives, with jaettavat (nominative plural), jaettavaa (partitive singular), jaettavan (genitive singular), and jaettavien (genitive plural). This flexibility allows jaettavien to modify plural nouns in genitive constructions, such as jaettavien lukujen joukko or jaettavien ongelmien ratkaisut, depending on the context.

See also: jakaja (divisor), jakaminen (division), jaollinen (divisible), jaettava (dividend).