Sisäänhengitettävän

Sisäänhengitettävän is a Finnish linguistic term referring to the genitive singular form of the passive present participle sisäänhengitettävä, which is formed from the verb sisäänhengittää meaning “to inhale.” The participle denotes something that is to be inhaled or that is inhaled, and it functions as an attributive modifier in noun phrases. In Finnish grammar, participles can be used like adjectives, and their case endings agree with the noun they modify. The genitive singular sisäänhengitettavan is used when the modified noun is in the genitive or when the phrase expresses “the air to be inhaled” or similar meanings in technical contexts.

Common uses of sisäänhengitettävän arise in technical or medical writing to describe materials, drugs, or environments intended for inhalation, such as inhalation therapies or aerosolized medicines. It can also appear in descriptions of air or substances associated with inhalation, especially in contexts discussing exposure, filtration, or pharmaceutical delivery.

Examples:

Tutkijat mittaavat sisäänhengitettavan ilman laatua. (Researchers measure the quality of the air to be inhaled.)

Sisäänhengitettävän lääkkeen annos vaikuttaa keuhkojen alueella. (The dose of the inhaled drug affects the lungs area.)

Note: In everyday speech, other constructions or adjectives may be used; sisäänhengitettävä is relatively formal/technical.

Etymology: The word is built from sisään- (in-, into) and hengittää (to inhale) with the passive present participle suffix -ttava, yielding sisäänhengitettävä, whose genitive singular is sisäänhengitettavan.