havaittavien

Havaittavien is a Finnish grammatical form, the genitive plural of the adjective havaittava, meaning observable or detectable. The base verb havaita means to perceive or detect, and the participial form havaittava functions as an adjective to describe things that can be observed. Havaittavien is used when the modified noun is in the genitive plural, or when forming phrases in which the whole noun phrase is in genitive, such as in scientific or descriptive contexts.

In practice, havaittavien occurs in phrases like havaittavien ilmiöiden, meaning “of observable phenomena,” or havaittavien rajojen määrittäminen, meaning “the determination of observable limits.” It is commonly found in academic, scientific, and analytical Finnish where specifying what can be perceived or measured is relevant. The form agrees in number and case with the noun it describes; thus it appears with genitive plural nouns and other elements in the same grammatical construction.

Related forms include havaittavat (nominative plural, “the observable ones”) and havaittavaa (partitive singular, “observable” in partitive contexts). The word is typically used as part of a noun phrase rather than as a standalone noun, functioning to qualify a noun tied to observation, measurement, or perception.

Overall, havaittavien serves as a precise linguistic tool for indicating that certain phenomena or items are within the realm of observation, especially in formal or technical Finnish writing.