Tuvastatavaid

Tuvastatavaid is an Estonian participial adjective form derived from the verb tuvastada or tuvastama, meaning to detect, establish, or identify. The form tuvastatavaid is the partitive plural of the adjective, and it is used to modify a plural noun in the partitive case, for example tuvastatavaid andmeid, meaning identifiable data.

In use, tuvastatavaid is common in official, technical, and legal language, especially in data protection and privacy contexts. Phrases such as tuvastatavate isikuandmete kaitse (protection of identifiable personal data) and tuvastatavate andmete töötlemine (processing of identifiable data) illustrate how the form co-occurs with nouns like andmed (data) or isikuandmed (personal data). The term conveys that the data can be linked to an identifiable individual.

Etymologically, the word comes from the verb tuvastama, with the suffix -atav forming a participial adjective, and the -e- and -d endings reflecting Estonian noun and case inflection. The partitive plural tuvastatavaid signals an indefinite, possibly incomplete set of items being referred to, commonly seen with mass or abstract nouns like andmeid.

Notes on usage: tuvastatavus and related forms are primarily grammatical tools rather than standalone concepts. They are used to describe data or attributes that can identify a person. In practice, tuvastatavad is the nominative plural form used for subjects, while tuvastatavaid is used when the noun is in the partitive, and other forms (tuvastatavate, tuvastatavate) appear across cases and numbers as required by Estonian grammar. See also Estonian grammar and data-protection terminology.