Nähtavate

Nähtavate is a form related to the Finnish adjective nähtävä, meaning “visible” or “to be seen.” In standard Finnish, nähtävä is used to describe things that can be seen or are meant to be seen, and it behaves as a regular inflected adjective. The commonly used inflected forms for nähtävä include nähtävä (singular nominative), nähdät (rare/older forms), and the plural forms nähtävät (nominative plural), nähtäviä (partitive plural), and nähtävien (genitive plural). The adjective is widely used in contexts such as travel, education, and everyday description to mark objects or places that are visible or worth seeing.

Nähtavate itself is not a neutral dictionary headword in modern Finnish; it is not a standard base form you will typically find in dictionaries. Rather, it can appear as a surface form in certain grammatical constructions or as part of a larger phrase. When people intend to refer to several objects that can be seen, they more commonly use näytävät (the visible ones) or, in a concrete sense, nähtäviä paikkoja (places to be seen) or nähtäviä nähtävyyksiä (sights to see). The well-established noun for tourist attractions is nähtävyydet, and phrases like “nähdä nähtävää” or “nähdäviä paikkoja” illustrate typical usage patterns.

Related topics include Finnish noun forms and the verb-based origin of nähtävä, which derives from the verb nähdä (to see). Understanding the standard inflected forms helps clarify how variations like nähtavate might arise in nonstandard, poetic, or dialectal writing.

See also: Finnish grammar on adjectives and participles; the suffix -ttava; the noun nähtävyydet (sights).