Kerättävä

Kerättävä is a Finnish word formed from the verb kerätä, meaning “to collect,” with the suffix -ttava. It functions as a present passive participle and is used as an adjective to express that something is capable of being collected or should be collected. In practice, kerättävä can describe objects, collections, or tasks that involve collecting.

As an adjective, kerättävä typically appears before the noun it modifies, for example kerättävä esine, meaning a collectible item or an object to be collected. The term can also be used in predicative constructions, such as Esine on kerättävä, which translates to “The item must be collected” or “The item is to be collected.” In plural or more complex phrases, the word inflects like other Finnish adjectives, and related forms include kerättävien esineiden (of collectible items) and kerättävissä oleva (in the process of being collectible or able to be collected).

Etymology and related forms: kerättävä derives from kerätä + -ttava, a common way to form adjectives that describe an obligation or potential ability. Related words include keräys (collection), keräilijä (collector), and keräilyesine (collectible item), all of which provide context for how kerättävä is used in discussions of collecting, hobbies, markets, and inventories.

Usage notes: kerättävä frequently appears in contexts involving collecting as a goal or requirement, such as hobby collecting, game interfaces that label items to be gathered, or inventories that distinguish between already collected and still to be collected. While it primarily denotes possibility or obligation to collect, it can also operate as a straightforward descriptor of a collectible item in everyday Finnish.