haettavat

Haettavat is a Finnish adjective form derived from the verb hakea, meaning to seek or to apply for. It is a participial form, and haettavat is the plural nominative form used to describe nouns as “to be sought” or “to be applied for.” In practice this means that haettavat items are those that require or invite an application, such as grants, licenses, funds or positions.

The phrase is common in administrative, educational and governmental language. For example, haettavat avustukset refers to grants or subsidies that are open for application, and haettavat työpaikat to positions that applicants can apply for. The term helps distinguish between things that are already allocated and those that are still open to competitive applications.

In sentences, haettavat usually precede the noun, functioning as an adjective: haettavat apurahat, haettavat luvat, haettavat kilpailut. The form may appear in other cases depending on sentence structure, for example haettavien asioiden lista (list of items to be applied for) or haettavia apurahoja (partitive case for “grants to apply for”).

Etymologically, haettavat comes from hakea, via the participial stem haettava, with haettavat as the plural form. It is typically translated as “to be applied for” or “open for application” in English.

Note: The exact nuance depends on context; in practice haettavat denotes items that are available through an application process rather than already awarded.