haettavan

Haettavan is a Finnish grammatical form, not a separate concept. It is the genitive singular form of the present active participle haettava, an adjective meaning something that is to be sought, claimed, or obtained. As a modifier, haettavan appears before a noun in genitive, for example haettavan palkinnon arvo, meaning “the value of the prize to be claimed.” The phrase indicates that the noun is something that is expected to be sought or claimed rather than currently possessed.

Usage of haettavan is common in administrative, legal, and formal prose, where tasks, rights, or items must be obtained or pursued. It is formed from the verb hakea, meaning “to seek, to fetch, to apply for,” with the derivational suffix -ttava, which creates adjectives describing something that is to be done.

The form is a standard inflected part of Finnish grammar. Haettavan is the genitive singular; other cases and forms of the adjective include haettavaa (partitive) and haettava (nominative). While haettava functions primarily as an adjective, haettavan is used inside noun phrases to link the idea of “to be sought/obtained” to a specific noun.