rinnastettavan

Rinnastettavan is a Finnish inflected form derived from the adjective/participle rinnastettava, itself coming from the verb rinnastaa ("to compare, to equate, to place side by side"). The suffix -ttava produces a participial adjective with a passive or necessity nuance (often rendered in English as "to be ...", "readable"/"comparable"), and the -n ending marks the genitive singular. Thus rinnastettavan can be glossed roughly as "of the thing to be compared" or "of the comparable."

The form appears in contexts where the concept expressed by rinnastettava is grammatically possessed or modifies another noun (for example, rinnastettavan periaatteen "of the principle to be equated"). It is frequently used in legal, administrative and academic language when discussing whether different cases, rights or norms can be treated as equivalent or analogized to one another.

Morphologically, rinnastettavan = rinnastaa (verb) + -ttava (participle/adjectival suffix) + -n (genitive). Related forms include rinnastettava (base participle), rinnastettavaa (partitive), rinnastettavassa (inessive), and others according to Finnish case inflection.

In translation, rinnastettavan is typically rendered depending on context as "of the comparable," "of the one to be equated," or "of the case to be compared," and its precise nuance is determined by the sentence and domain of use.