Löydettävä

Löydettävä is a Finnish word derived from the verb löytää ("to find") by adding the suffix -ttava/-ettävä, which forms verbal adjectives and nouns. It has several related senses in contemporary usage.

As a verbal adjective or passive necessity, löydettävä often means "to be found" or "that must be found" and appears in contexts indicating obligation or requirement (similar to English "to be found" or "must be found"). As an adjectival quality it can mean "findable" or "discoverable" (capable of being found). As a noun, löydettävä denotes "an item to be found" (for example in lists of targets in a search or a scavenger hunt).

Usage examples:

- Etsintä on käynnissä; kadonnut koira on löydettävä. (The search is ongoing; the missing dog must be found.)

- Tiedostot ovat helposti löydettävissä hakutoiminnolla. (Files are easily findable via the search function.)

- Löydettävät on merkitty karttaan. (The items to be found are marked on the map.)

The related abstract noun löydettävyys corresponds to "findability" or "discoverability" and is used in fields such as information retrieval, library science and user experience design. Grammatically, löydettävä declines like other Finnish i-adjectives and can take plural forms (löydettävät) and case endings as required by syntax.