Todistettavasta

Todistettavasta is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective todistettava, meaning verifiable or provable. It is the elative singular form, used to modify a noun in phrases that indicate the source or subject of verification, such as todistettavasta seikasta (of a verifiable fact) or todistettavasta väitteestä (about a verifiable claim). The base adjective comes from the verb todistaa (to prove) with the -ttava suffix that forms a present passive participle meaning "that can be proven" or "verifiable." In usage, todistettavasta is common in formal, academic, and legal language.

Usage and nuance:

Todistettavasta conveys that the referenced matter is capable of being demonstrated with evidence. It often appears in contexts where precision about evidence, justification, or proof is important. The form signals a factual or methodological standard rather than a subjective opinion.

Examples:

- Todistettavasta väitteestä on kyse. (This concerns a verifiable claim.)

- Tutkimusviitteet perustuvat todistettavasta seikasta kerättyyn dataan. (The research references are based on data collected from a verifiable fact.)

Relationship to related terms:

Todistettavuus refers to verifiability or the quality of being provable. Todistettava (without the -sta) serves as the base adjective meaning verifiable or provable, while todistaa is the verb “to prove.” The form todistettavasta is one of several case-specific inflections used to express source, subject, or relation in Finnish grammar.

See also:

todistettavuus, todistettava, todistaa, verifiability (in English-language contexts).

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