mahdollistavan

Mahdollistavan is a Finnish inflected form derived from the present active participle mahdollistava, which comes from the verb mahdollistaa ("to enable" or "to make possible"). Grammatically, mahdollistavan is the genitive singular form of the adjective/participle mahdollistava and is used to modify nouns or indicate possession (for example, mahdollistavan teknologian "of enabling technology"). In pronunciation it is rendered approximately as [ˈmɑhdollistɑvɑn].

As a participial adjective, mahdollistava describes an agent, factor or feature that enables, facilitates or makes an action or state possible; the genitive mahdollistavan typically appears in noun phrases where that enabling quality is attributed to something else. It is common in contexts such as technology, policy, education and research, where talk often centers on solutions, tools or conditions that enable outcomes (e.g., mahdollistavan ratkaisun "an enabling solution", mahdollistavan ympäristön "an enabling environment").

Etymologically the word traces to mahdollinen ("possible") and the causative verb-forming suffix that yields mahdollistaa. The present participle ending -va forms mahdollistava, and the genitive marker -n produces mahdollistavan. The term is not a finite verb form but an adjectival/participle form used in syntactic constructions requiring agreement or genitive marking.