Odottavaksi

Odottavaksi is a Finnish grammatical form. It is the translative form of the present active participle odottava, which comes from the verb odottaa meaning "to wait." The translative suffix -ksi marks a change of state or designation, so odottavaksi expresses "to become (something) that is waiting" or "to be designated as someone who waits." The form is primarily found in predicative or evaluative constructions in formal, written Finnish, including legal, administrative, or literary contexts. In everyday speech, odottavaksi is uncommon; speakers typically use odottava or other constructions such as adjectives or adverbs to convey waiting or the sense of being in a waiting state.

The word inflects as a participle in the translative case; it does not mark person or number on its own but agrees with the syntactic subject through the verb, as typical for Finnish predicates of becoming or designation. It is related to other translative forms formed from adjectives or participles.

The etymology traces to odottaa ("to wait") plus the present active participle odottava, with the translative suffix -ksi producing odottavaksi.

See also Finnish grammar, Finnish participles, translative case.