Käsiteldava

Käsiteldava is an Estonian grammatical form derived from the verb käsitlema, meaning to handle, treat, or address. It functions as a present passive participle or verbal adjective that marks something as being in a state of processing or dealing with. The form is especially common in formal, administrative, and bureaucratic language to label documents, tasks, or issues that require attention.

Morphology and usage: As an attributive adjective, käsiteldav agrees with the noun it modifies in number and case. In a simple noun phrase one can find expressions such as käsiteldav dokument or käsiteldav aruanne, meaning “a document to be processed” and “a report to be addressed.” The genitive singular form of the word appears as käsiteldava, for example in phrases like käsiteldava dokumendi sisu (the content of the document to be processed). The form is part of a broader set of participial adjectives formed from verbs to express upcoming or potential action.

Origin and register: The form is built from the stem käsitle- with the participial suffix -dav and is widely used in government, legal, and project-management texts. It conveys a neutral, task-oriented tone and typically indicates items that are scheduled for action rather than completed ones.

See also: käsitlema, käsitletav, active participles in Estonian.