haastateltavaa
Haastateltava is a Finnish noun that denotes the person who will be interviewed, i.e., an interviewee. It is gender-neutral and used across journalism, research, and other contexts where an interview takes place. The form haastateltavaa is the partitive singular form of haastateltava, and it appears in constructions where the interviewee is the object of a verb that requires the partitive or in negative clauses, for example, tarvitaanko haastateltavaa (is an interviewee needed).
Etymologically, the word combines the verb haastatella, “to interview,” with the nominalizing suffix -va, producing haastateltava,
In practice, haastateltavaa is most common in media and research settings, where it refers to the person
Related terms include haastateltava (the interviewee in other cases or forms), haastatteleminen (the act of interviewing),