erotettavissa

Erotettavissa is a Finnish adjective meaning "able to be separated" or "separable." It is formed from the verb erottaa, "to separate," with the suffixes that indicate capability, resulting in a word used to describe something that can be separated into components or distinguished from something else. The form is related to the participial constructions in Finnish that convey potential or ability.

Morphology and usage notes: Erotettavissa is produced with the participial suffix -ttavissa, which signals capability or possibility. It is commonly used in technical, scientific, or analytical Finnish to discuss objects, substances, or concepts that can be divided, isolated, or distinguished by some method. The noun phrase erottettavissa oleva (the separable part or the separable feature) is a typical construction in which the property is attributed to a thing being described.

Contexts and examples: In chemistry or materials science, one might speak of mixtures or phases as erotettavissa, meaning they can be separated by physical or chemical processes. In linguistics or logic, a feature or data point can be described as erotettavissa if it can be distinguished from others. Example sentences include: "Seoksen komponentit ovat erotettavissa," meaning "The components of the mixture are separable," and "Erotettavissa oleva tieto voidaan analysoida erikseen," meaning "The separable information can be analyzed separately." In everyday Finnish, the term appears primarily in more formal or written contexts rather than casual speech.

Relation to related terms: The opposite concept is erotettava or eroteltavissa element, used to denote something that must or can be separated. The word shares a semantic field with other Finnish expressions describing separability, distinguishability, or divisibility.