Määritettävät

Määritettävät is a Finnish word formed from the verb määrittää, meaning to define, with the present passive participle suffix -ttava. The result functions as an adjective describing things that are to be defined or that can be defined. In Finnish, the base singular form is määritettävä and the plural nominative form is määritettävät; the form also appears in various case endings as an adjective.

The term is commonly used in technical, academic, and linguistic contexts to indicate items that, at a given stage, remain to be defined or are capable of being defined. It can describe requirements, parameters, criteria, or concepts that have not yet been fully specified. In broader usage, määritettävät conveys the sense of potential definability or future definability, depending on the precise wording and discourse.

In grammar, määritettävät behaves like a standard attributive participial adjective, agreeing with the noun it describes in number and case. It contrasts with the related form määritettävä, which is used for singular references, and with other participial forms that express different nuances of definition or specification. The word is thus a productive part of Finnish descriptive and technical vocabulary.

Example usages include phrases such as määritettävät ehdot (the conditions to be defined), määritettävät parametrit (the parameters to be defined), or more generally, määritettävät asiat (the things to be defined). The term is often embedded in planning, specification, and analytical texts where definitional work is ongoing.

See also: määrittää, määritelmä, määritellä, määritetty, määriteltävä.