etsitvät

Etsittävät is a Finnish present passive participle formed from the verb etsiä (to search or look for). It functions as an attributive plural adjective meaning “to be sought” or “to be looked for.” The standard plural form is etsittävät; the spelling etsitvät is generally regarded as a misspelling in standard Finnish.

Usage is common in formal registers such as law enforcement, administration, archival descriptions, and investigative contexts. It modifies nouns in noun phrases, for example: etsittävät henkilöt (the persons to be sought) and etsittävät asiakirjat (documents to be searched for). The form agrees with the noun it describes in number and case; in other cases the endings change, e.g., etsittävien (genitive), etsittäviä (partitive).

Grammatical notes: as a participial adjective, etsittävät conveys a state of being subject to an action—specifically, that something is intended to be sought or retrieved. It does not imply that the searching has already occurred. It is related to the singular etsittävä, the noun form for “to be sought,” and to other forms derived from etsiä used in similar compounds.

In usage, etsittävät helps specify targets of a search or retrieval process, distinguishing those items or persons that are the object of an ongoing or planned search from those already found or excluded. See also Finnish participles and related forms such as etsittävä and other noun-adjective compounds built from etsiä.