hankittavaan

Hankittavaan is a form found in Finnish grammar related to the verb hankita, meaning to procure or obtain. It comes from the short passive participle hankittava, which describes something that is to be procured or is intended to be obtained. The ending -an in hankittavaan signals a specific case form used when the participial adjective modifies a noun in a particular grammatical role, typically in formal or procurement-related language.

In practical use, hankittavaan tends to appear in formal documents, procurement specifications, and planning texts to highlight goods, services, or components that are designated for future procurement. For example, phrases built with hankittavaan describe items or systems intended to be procured for a project, program, or organization. The exact meaning is that the referenced item is something that must or will be obtained through a procurement process.

Grammatical notes: hankittavaan is part of the declension pattern of the adjective formed from the participle hankittava. Like other Finnish adjectives and participial forms, it declines according to number and case to agree with the noun it modifies. For instance, in singular it can appear as hankittava (nominative), hankittavan (genitive), hankittavaan (illative), hankittavaa (partitive), and so on, depending on the syntactic role. The form is parallel to other similar -ttava adjectives such as ostettava (to be bought) and toteutettava (to be implemented).

See also: hankita, ostettava, toteutettava, hankintaprosessi.