Mitätöitävä

Mitätöitävä is a Finnish adjective meaning “to be annulled” or “to be invalidated.” It is derived from the verb mitätöidä (to invalidate, nullify) and is used to describe actions, decisions, or documents that should or must be canceled or reversed. The word is common in legal, administrative, and contractual language, where it denotes status or obligation rather than a completed action.

Morphology and usage

Mitätöitävä is typically used attributively before a noun, for example mitätöitävä päätös (a decision to be annulled). In standard Finnish, such adjectives decline like other adjectives: mitätöitävän päätöksen (genitive), mitätöitävää päätöstä (partitive), mitätöitävänä päätöksenä (inessive/locative forms in compound constructions). It contrasts with mitätöity, which means “annulled” or “invalidated” as a completed state.

Contexts and nuance

The term signals prospective or required action rather than a completed result. It appears in statutes, administrative decisions, contracts, and regulatory texts to indicate that a particular matter is subject to cancellation, reversal, or invalidation, or that it must be invalidated under applicable rules. It is less common in everyday conversation and more typical of formal or technical discourse.

Related terms

mitätöinti (nullification, annulment), mitätöidä (to invalidate), mitätöity (invalidated). The vocabulary forms part of Finnish civil and administrative law lexicon.

See also

Nullification, annulment, invalidation, Finnish legal terminology.