puhdistettav

Puhdistettav is a Finnish grammatical stem used to form adjectives and participles related to cleaning. It does not function as a stand-alone word in ordinary Finnish; instead it serves as the stem that underlies forms expressing that something is cleanable or to be cleaned. The stem comes from the verb puhdistaa (to clean) and is combined with the participial suffixes of the -ttava family to create meanings such as “cleanable” or “to be cleaned.”

In practice, puhdistettav- is extended with various endings to produce different case and mood forms. For example, puhdistettavissa means “in a state of being cleanable” or simply “cleanable,” puhdistettavaa corresponds to the partitive form “to be cleaned” or “cleanable (partitive),” and puhdistettavat refers to “cleanable ones” (nominative plural). The genitive, illative, essive, and other cases follow the standard Finnish inflection patterns for adjectives of this type (e.g., puhdistettavan, puhdistettavaksi, puhdistettavien, etc.).

Usage context for puhdistettav forms is common in technical, manufacturing, and quality-control language. They appear in product specifications, maintenance manuals, and descriptions of materials or components that can undergo cleaning without damage. Because the form is a stem rather than a standalone lexical entry, it is typically encountered as part of longer inflected words rather than printed alone.

See also: puhdistus (cleaning/purification), puhdistettava (to-be-cleaned), Finnish participial adjectives.