kutsuttavaan

Kutsuttavaan is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the verb kutsua, meaning to invite. It represents the illative singular form of the participial adjective kutsuttava, which is built with the verb-derived suffix -ttava to express a meaning related to invitation, such as “to be invited” or “invitable.” The illative case, indicated by the ending -an (with harmony variations such as -aan in some environments), marks direction toward something, roughly “into” or “to” the destination of the action.

As a participial adjective, kutsuttava bears a descriptive function and can modify a noun, agreeing with the noun’s case and number. In its illative form, kutsuttavaan would typically appear before a noun in the illative, forming a phrase that refers to a thing or event to which inviting is relevant. For example, kutsuttavaan modifies a noun in illative to convey a sense akin to “the event to which one is to be invited.” It is important to note that this construction is relatively formal and primarily found in written language, legal or encyclopedic contexts, or in linguistic descriptions. In everyday spoken Finnish, speakers more commonly use the passive past participle kutsuttu (“invited”) or paraphrase with periphrastic forms such as “johon sinut kutsutaan” (to which you are invited).

Kutsuttavaan stands in contrast to forms like kutsuttava (nominative or general participial form) and kutsuttavan (genitive) and to the related verb root kutsua. It illustrates how Finnish combines participial morphology with case endings to encode tense, aspect, and syntactic relations within a noun phrase.

See also: kutsua, illative case, Finnish participles, passive participle kutsuttu.