edellyttämään

Edellyttämän is a grammatical form in Finnish derived from the verb edellyttää, meaning to require or necessitate. It represents the genitive singular of the present active participle edellyttämä, which translates roughly as “requiring” or “that requires.” As a participial adjective, edellyttämä describes a noun in terms of what is required or necessary.

In practice, edellyttämän appears in phrases where the noun it modifies is in the genitive case or where the participle is used within a larger noun phrase in formal or technical language. It functions similarly to other compound participial adjectives in Finnish, indicating conditional or requisite characteristics of the noun, such as requirements, standards, or conditions that apply to the noun.

Relation to other forms is part of its grammar: the present active participle edellyttävä means “requiring,” the noun-like form edellyttämä serves as the base participle, and edellytetty is the corresponding past passive participle meaning “required.” The form edellyttämän is the genitive singular of edellyttämä, used when the noun it modifies is with a determiner or when the phrase is part of a larger construction in which possession or specification is expressed.

Usage notes: edellyttämän is relatively common in formal, academic, and legal Finnish contexts where precise conditions or requirements are discussed. It is less typical in everyday conversation, where simpler constructions are preferred.

See also: edellyttää, edellytetty, edellyttävä.