Ylläpidettävänä

Ylläpidettävänä is a Finnish linguistic form that expresses a state or role related to maintenance. It is the essive case form of the present passive participle of the verb ylläpitää, meaning to maintain. The form roughly corresponds to “as being maintained” or “to be maintained” in English, and it is used to describe something that should or must be kept in a maintained condition within a given context.

Grammatically, ylläpitettävä is the present passive participle of ylläpitää, and the essive case adds the ending -nä (or -nänä) to yield ylläpitettävänä. The essive marks a temporary or transitional state, often used in formal or technical language to indicate the current status of an object or process during an activity, contract, or compliance framework. In everyday Finnish, speakers more commonly use other constructions, but ylläpitettävänä appears in documentation, standards, and procurement texts.

Usage and nuance: the term is typical in contexts involving maintenance, upkeep, or regulatory requirements. It can appear in maintenance plans, service agreements, or audit-readable formulations to denote that a system, equipment, or process must be kept in a maintained state. It is not a common everyday verb form, but it is a standard grammatical category in Finnish technical writing and legal documents.

Related terms include the noun ylläpito (maintenance), the verb ylläpitää (to maintain), and other participial forms such as ylläpidettävä (to be maintained, as a noun/adjective in nominative). Understanding ylläpidettävänä helps clarify how Finnish expresses ongoing states of maintenance within complex sentences.