Levitettävä

Levitettävää is a Finnish word form used to describe something that is intended to be spread. It is the partitive singular form of the adjective levitettävä, which stems from the verb levittää, meaning “to spread.” The term is commonly found in technical, medical, cosmetic, painting, and culinary contexts where an item must be applied or distributed over a surface.

Usage and examples share a practical sense: levitettävää voidetta refers to an ointment that is to be spread on the skin, and levitettävää maalia refers to paint that is to be spread on a surface. The form is typically used in phrases where the object is indefinite or described as something that will be spread, often appearing in instructions, specifications, or product literature. For instance, in a guideline one might encounter “levitettävää voidetta levitetään ohjeiden mukaan,” meaning that the ointment to be spread is applied according to the instructions.

Etymology and grammar: levitettävä is the present participle form derived from levittää (to spread). The suffix -ttava creates a participle that denotes something that should or will be spread. When the object is in partitive case, as in levitettävää, the phrase functions as “the [something] to be spread” within a sentence.

See also: levittää, levittäminen, levitettävä maali, levitettävä voide. In Finnish, related forms may describe the action (levittäminen, the spreading/dissemination) or the property of being spreadable (levitettävä, as an adjective).