Maksettavalla

Maksettavalla is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the adjective maksettava, meaning payable or to be paid. It is the adessive form used to describe a noun that is in a state of being payable, such as an amount, debt, or obligation that is due for payment. In practice, maksettavalla appears mainly in financial and legal language to indicate that something must still be paid or is currently due.

The form is most often encountered in predicative constructions or in noun phrases where the noun is accompanied by a determiner and appears in a case that requires the adessive form. For example, in a sentence like Lasku on maksettavalla, meaning “The invoice is payable,” maksettavalla expresses the status of the lasku (invoice). It can also occur within larger clauses that describe payments that are due or pending.

A related, more common attributive form is maksettava, which directly modifies a noun, as in maksettava lasku or maksettavat erät (payable invoices or payable installments). The choice between maksettava and maksettavalla depends on sentence structure: maksettava is typically used directly before a noun, while maksettavalla is used when the state of payment is described within a clause (predicatively) or when the noun phrase requires the adessive form.

In summary, maksettavalla denotes that a sum or obligation is in the state of being payable and is primarily used in formal financial or legal Finnish to express that payment is due.