paigaldatavat

Paigaldatavat is an Estonian adjective meaning installable or capable of being installed. It is formed from the verb paigaldama, meaning to install, with the participial suffix -atav, which yields a form used to describe something that can be installed. The form paigaldatavat is the partitive singular of paigaldatav, used when the noun it modifies is in the partitive case.

In usage, paigaldatavat appears mainly in technical and product- or software-related texts. It is commonly found in software repositories, documentation, and specifications to indicate that a component, package, or piece of hardware can be installed on a system. Examples include phrases like paigaldatavat tarkvara (installable software) or paigaldatavat riistvara (installable hardware).

Related terms include paigaldatavus, the noun for installability, and the base paigaldatav, the masculine or feminine adjective stem depending on the noun it describes. The concept is part of Estonian terminology for software packaging, system requirements, and hardware compatibility, where clarity about installability helps users determine suitability and deployment options. While paigaldatav is the more general descriptive form, its inflected forms, including paigaldatavat, are used to fit grammatical context in sentence structures.