Jätettävän

Jätettävän is a Finnish word formed from the verb jättää, meaning “to leave” or “to abandon,” and the present passive participle suffix -ttava, yielding jätettävä, “to be left.” The form jä­t­tet­tävän is the genitive singular of this participle and is used to modify a noun in explanations like “the X to be left behind.” In this sense, jätettävän functions as a participial adjective, describing something that is designated to be left or omitted.

In grammar, jätettävä is a participle that can take various inflectional endings to match the noun it describes. Jätettävän is specifically the genitive singular, which allows it to appear in noun phrases such as jätettävän paperin, jätettävän osan, or jätettävän esineen, meaning respectively “the paper to be left behind,” “the part to be left,” or “the item to be left.” The nominative form is jätettävä, and the partitive form is jätettävää. While the word preserves a sense of future or potential action (something that is to be left), its exact nuance depends on context and the broader sentence.

Usage and register: jätettävän tends to occur in written or formal Finnish, including descriptive, legal, or technical language, where items or procedures are designated as left, left out, or omitted. It is less common in everyday speech, where simpler constructions with active forms are more frequent.

See also: Finnish participles, adjectives, verb jätä, grammar of compound noun phrases.