Siedettävänä

Siedettävänä is a Finnish adjective form meaning bearable or tolerable. It is the essive form of the adjective siedettävä, which derives from the verb sietää, “to endure” or “to tolerate.” The suffix ttävä creates an adjective meaning “tolerable,” and the essive suffix -nä/-na turns the word into siedettävänä to express “in the state of being bearable” or “as bearable.”

In usage, siedettävänä is typically employed in analytical or formal contexts to describe a situation, condition, or arrangement that is manageable even if not ideal. It is most commonly found with verbs such as olla, to be, in which it denotes a temporary or evaluative state. For example, tilanne on siedettävänä suggests that the situation is bearable, though not exemplary, and may note the need for improvement. The expression can also appear in passive constructions, such as siedettävänä pidetty, meaning “considered bearable.”

The term has related forms and antonyms. The opposite is sietämätön, meaning intolerable. The noun form is siedettävyys, referring to tolerability or the degree to which something can be endured. Other related words include sietäminen (the act of tolerating) and siedettävä (bearable, tolerable) as the base adjective.

Siedettävänä thus functions as a precise, somewhat formal descriptor indicating that a condition is acceptable within defined limits, rather than excellent. Its use is more common in written Finnish, policy language, and evaluative descriptions than in everyday spoken discourse.