ennustettavien

Ennustettavien is a Finnish grammatical form used as the genitive plural of the adjective ennustettava, meaning "to be predicted" or "predictable." The base adjective is formed from the verb ennustaa, “to predict,” with the participial suffix -ttava, giving a sense of potential or capability. In Finnish, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify, and the genitive plural form of this adjective is -ien, yielding ennustettavien in contexts describing multiple items.

Usage and examples

Ennustettavien is typically found in formal or technical writing, especially in discussions of forecasting, risk assessment, or statistics. It marks that the described nouns are capable of being predicted rather than guaranteed to be predicted. Common word orders place ennustettavien before a following noun in the genitive phrase, for example: ennustettavien tapahtumien määrä (the amount of predictable events). Other inflected forms exist for different cases, such as nominative plural ennustettavat tapahtumat or partitive plural ennustettavia tapahtumia, depending on sentence structure.

Examples

- Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan ennustettavien ilmiöiden hallittavuutta. (The study examines the manageability of predictable phenomena.)

- Ennustettavien tapahtumien määrä on riippuvainen useista tekijöistä. (The number of predictable events depends on several factors.)

Etymology and related forms

The word comes from ennustettava, with the same root as ennustaa, “to predict.” Related forms include ennustettava (dictionary form), ennustaminen (forecasting), and ennuste (forecast).

See also

ennustettava, ennustaminen, ennuste.