Siirrettävissä

Siirrettävissä is a Finnish adjective form meaning transferable or movable, i.e., able to be transferred from one place, system, or context to another. It is derived from the verb siirtää (to move or transfer) with the present active participle suffix -ttävä, and further inflected to express state with the inessive form -ssä; the combined form siirrettävissä conveys “in a state that can be transferred.” The base noun related to the concept is siirto or siirrettävyys, the latter denoting transferability as a general property.

Morphology and usage in Finnish are aligned with the language’s participle-based adjective formation. Siirrettävissä is typically used in formal or technical language to describe objects, data, or assets that can be moved or transferred between contexts, locations, or systems. It emphasizes the potential or capability of transfer rather than the act itself. In practice, the form often appears in contexts such as IT systems, data management, logistics, or legal/administrative texts where transferability is a key criterion.

Examples:

- Tiedot ovat siirrettävissä uuteen järjestelmään. (The data are transferable to the new system.)

- Siirrettävissä olevat varat siirretään seuraaviin tilikantoihin. (Assets that are transferable will be moved to the following accounts.)

Related terms include siirrettävä (transferable/portable as a basic adjective) and siirrettävyys (transferability, the noun form). The term is formal and less common in everyday speech, but it is established in technical Finnish to describe the property of being transferable.