ennakoitavampaa

Ennakoitavampaa is the comparative form of the Finnish adjective ennakoitava, meaning “predictable” or “foreseeable.” It is used to indicate that something is more predictable than another thing or than in a previous situation.

Formation and meaning: The base ennakoitava comes from the verb ennakoida, “to anticipate” or “to foresee,” with the participial suffix -tava to form an adjective. The comparative is created with the suffix -mpi, yielding ennakoitavampi. When the adjective modifies a noun in partitive or appears in contexts that require partitive case, the form ennakoitavampaa is used, for example ennakoitavampaa riskiä (“a more predictable risk”).

Usage: Ennakoitavampaa is common in formal or technical discourse, such as risk assessment, forecasting, and planning, where levels of foreseeability are discussed. In everyday language, speakers often use ennakoitavampi for stand-alone comparisons or rephrase with expressions like “enemmän ennakoitava” to avoid inflectional complexity. The exact form chosen depends on the grammatical role of the modified noun (nominative, partitive, etc.) and on stylistic preferences.

Examples:

- Tulevaisuuden skenaariot ovat ennakoitavampia nykypäivän malleihin verrattuna.

- Ennakoitavampaa riskiä on vaikea hallita, mutta sen hallinta on mahdollista paremmalla suunnittelulla.

See also: ennakoida, ennakointi, ennustaa, riskien hallinta.