näkyvä

Näkyvä is a Finnish adjective meaning visible, noticeable, or evident. It describes things that can be seen with the eye or perceived without difficulty, and it can also refer to phenomena or statements that appear obvious or apparent in a given context. In everyday language, nähtävät, conspicuous or salient ideas may be described as näkyviä.

The word is formed from the stem näke- with the suffix -vä, which yields an adjective indicating a quality or capacity. It follows standard Finnish adjective inflection and agrees with the noun it modifies in number and case. Common forms include näkyvä (nominative singular), näkyvän (genitive singular), näkyvää (partitive singular), sekä näkyvät (nominative plural) and näkyvien (genitive plural).

Usage notes and nuance: näkyvä is often used for things observable by sight or easily perceived, such as a physically visible object (for example, a talo on näkyvä alueelta) or a conspicuous feature of a person or situation (henkilö on näkyvä, meaning a prominent or well-known figure). In scientific or analytical writing, näkyvä can be paired with other terms to emphasize visibility to the naked eye, while more specialized terms like havaittava (observable) or näköinen (appearance-based) may be preferred in precise contexts. The related noun näkövyys or visibility, näkyvyys, denotes the general concept of how easily something can be seen or perceived.

Related words and contrasts: näky (sight, a visible thing), näkevä (older or dialectal forms), and compound expressions such as näkyvyyden kustannuksella (at the expense of visibility). Näkyvä is distinct from related adjectives that describe appearance or likelihood, and it commonly functions across descriptive, scientific, and media language to indicate perceptibility or prominence.