lohduttavan

Lohduttavan is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective lohduttava, which means comforting, consoling, or reassuring. The word belongs to the class of participial adjectives formed from the verb lohduttaa (to console) and the noun lohdutus (consolation). As an inflected form, lohduttavan appears where the noun it modifies is in the genitive case, indicating a relation such as “of the comforting …” or attributive construction within a sentence.

In usage, lohduttavan modifies a noun in genitive, for example lohduttavan sanan (of a comforting word) or lohduttavan vaikutelman (of the comforting impression). The nominative singular form is lohduttava, used when the noun it describes is in the nominative, as in se on lohduttava sana (it is a comforting word). Finnish adjectives like lohduttava, and therefore lohduttavan, decline for number and case, but not for gender, since Finnish has no grammatical gender.

Etymologically, lohduttava is built from lohduttaa, meaning to console, with the -ttava suffix that creates an adjective indicating someone or something characterized by the action or quality, namely consolation. The word is common in both everyday language and written Finnish when describing things that provide solace or reassurance to someone.

Overall, lohduttavan is a routine grammatical form used to express possession, attribution, or a relational sense of comforting quality tied to a genitive noun. It exemplifies Finnish adjective inflection and the close link between lohduttaa, lohdutus, and lohduttava in conveying solace.