Pyydettävän

Pyydettävän is a genitive singular form of the Finnish participial adjective pyydettävä, which originates from the verb pyytää meaning to request or to ask for. Pyydettävä describes something that is to be requested or that should be requested. In Finnish, participial adjectives like pyydettävä can function both as modifiers of nouns and, in some contexts, as stand-alone nouns in legal or administrative language. The genitive singular form pyydettävän is used when the phrase modifies a noun in the genitive, for example pyydettävän tiedon, meaning “the information to be requested” or “the information that is to be requested.”

Grammatical notes and usage patterns: pyydettävä declines like other adjectives in the attributive position, with forms adapting to case and number of the noun it modifies. The genitive singular form pyydettävän appears whenever the whole noun phrase is in genitive and the modifier is a specifying participle. In most everyday language, speakers may use the base form pyydettävä when it stands before a noun in a neutral, non-genitive position, but in formal text pyydettävän is common when the noun is governed by a genitive noun elsewhere in the clause.

Context and register: pyydettävän tends to appear in administrative, legal, or bureaucratic Finnish, especially in lists or clauses that specify items that will be requested or obtained. It helps create precise, formal expressions such as pyydettävän tiedon määrä (the amount of information to be requested) or pyydettävän sopimuksen ehdot (the terms of the contract to be requested). The term thus serves as a useful linguistic tool for delineating future or contingent requests within complex sentences.

Etymology and related forms: pyydettävä is formed from pyytää with the -ttävä participial suffix, yielding a meaning connected to obligation or expectation to request. Related forms include pyydettävän (genitive singular), pyydettävä (nominative), and other case endings built on the same participial stem.