Riittävät

Riittävät is a Finnish verb form derived from riittää, meaning to be sufficient or to suffice. It is the third-person plural present indicative form, used when the subject is plural and the predicate asserts that something is adequate. The related adjective riittävä means sufficient or adequate.

Usage and examples:

Riittävät is commonly used to state that a quantity, amount, or set of information is enough. Examples include: Rahat riittävät laskujen maksuun. (The money is enough to pay the bills.) Tiedot riittävät päätöksen tekemiseen. (The information is sufficient to make a decision.) Riittävätkö resurssit projektin loppuun saattamiseen? (Are the resources sufficient to complete the project?)

Nuances:

In Finnish, riittää and its forms are used across everyday and formal language to express sufficiency. The adjective riittävä is often used to describe the adequacy of something, while riittävät focuses on the verb form with plural subjects. In questions, the form can take the interrogative suffix: riittävätkö? This construction is common in policy discussions, project planning, and evaluative contexts where adequacy must be assessed.