Välitettävää

Välitettävää is a Finnish grammatical form used to describe something that is to be conveyed, forwarded, or transmitted. It is the partitive singular form of the adjectival passive participle välitettävä, which comes from the verb välittää meaning to convey, to forward, or to mediate. In Finnish, this participle functions as an adjective and is commonly used in noun phrases to indicate information, messages, or items that must be passed on.

Usage and meaning

Välitettävää typically appears in contexts involving transfer or relay of information or materials. It marks the head noun as something that should or must be conveyed to another party. Examples include phrases like välitettävä tieto (“information to be conveyed”) or välitettävä viesti (“message to be forwarded”). The form also appears in negative clauses, where the head noun is in partitive: Välitettävää tietoa ei saa levittää (“Information to be conveyed must not be spread”).

Grammar notes

Välitettävä is the present passive participle form, used attributively to modify a noun. The corresponding partitive form is välitettävää. This construction is distinct from the active participle välittävä (one who conveys). The -ttava/-tettava forms are common in Finnish for creating “to-be-done” descriptors, often in bureaucratic or formal language.

Related terms

Related concepts include välittäjä (mediator), välitys (mediation/relay), and other -tettava/-ttava formations used to express “to be done” in various contexts. Välitettävää is primarily a grammatical device for indicating that something should be conveyed or forwarded, rather than a standalone lexical item.

See also: Finnish grammar, participles, -ttava/-tettava formations.