pystyttävä

Pystyttävä is a Finnish present active participle derived from the verb pystyttää, meaning to erect or to raise. As a participle it functions as an adjective, describing an agent that performs the action of erecting or an ongoing act of erecting. The form is created by adding the suffix -ttava to the verb stem pystytt-, with standard vowel harmony producing pystyttävä.

In everyday Finnish, pystyttävä is relatively uncommon and is more likely to be found in linguistic explanations, technical or construction-related texts, or in formal writing. Speakers often use finite verb forms or other constructions to express the same idea (for example, phrases like “joka pystyttää” for “the one who erects” or other paraphrases) rather than relying on the participle.

As a participle, pystyttävä agrees with the noun it modifies in number and case, like other adjectives. It can be used attributively (before the noun) or predicatively (after a linking verb), though its usage tends to be limited to contexts involving construction, engineering, or grammatical discussion about participles rather than everyday speech.

Related forms include pystytetty, the past passive participle meaning “erected,” and pystytys, the noun denoting the act or process of erecting. The word is primarily of interest to Finnish learners, linguists, and professionals dealing with construction terminology.