Toimittavan

Toimittavan is a Finnish grammatical form rather than a standalone word. It is the genitive singular form of the present active participle toimittava, which comes from the verb toimittaa, meaning to deliver or to supply. In Finnish, present active participles can function as adjectives and modifiers in noun phrases, so toimittavan can describe a delivering or supplying agent, or appear in possessive constructions.

Function and usage: As an attributive modifier, the present active participle points to someone or something performing the action. The genitive singular vorm endings allow it to be part of noun phrases that express ownership or association, for example in a phrase like toimittavan henkilön tehtävä, meaning the delivering person’s task. The form can also appear in more complex phrases where the participle provides a relative or specifying sense within a larger noun phrase.

Morphology: The base participle is toimittava. Its genitive singular form is toimittavan. Other forms exist for different cases and numbers, following Finnish participle declension patterns. The form is highly context-dependent and typically found in written Finnish, especially in formal or administrative language.

Relation to other forms: toimittavan is closely related to the active participle toimittava and to the related passive participle form toimitettava (to be delivered). While toimittava conveys an ongoing delivering action, toimitettava marks something that must or is to be delivered. The choice between them depends on voice, aspect, and the syntactic role in the sentence.

Examples: Toimittavan työntekijän tehtävä on huolehtia toimituksista. (The delivering employee’s task is to ensure deliveries.) Toimittavan yrityksen logistiikka on järjestettävä.

See also: toimittava, toimitettava, toimittaja, toimittaminen.