suurennettavan

Suurennettavan is the genitive singular form of the Finnish attributive participle suurennettava, meaning “to be enlarged.” The form is used to refer to the thing that is intended to undergo magnification. In practice it appears in noun phrases such as suurennettavan kuvan, suurennettavan tekstin, where the participle functions as an adjective and the following noun is in its own case (often genitive when linked with another noun).

Grammatically, suurennettava is a present passive-like participle that describes an object that should be enlarged. Its genitive singular form, suurennettavan, is used when the descriptor precedes a noun in a dependent phrase, for example to express “the size of the image to be enlarged” or “the quality of the image to be enlarged.” This construction is more common in written or technical Finnish than in everyday speech, and it often appears in design briefs, printing instructions, imaging workflows, and similar contexts.

Usage notes:

- The phrase typically occurs in contexts involving magnification, scaling, or enhancement of visual material.

- The noun that follows is usually in the genitive to form a complete modifier, as in suurennettavan kuvan laatu (“the quality of the image to be enlarged”) or suurennettavan tekstin koko (“the size of the text to be enlarged”).

- It remains a nominalized participle form and reflects Finnish’s capacity to create descriptive phrases through case and agreement rather than fixed adjectives alone.

See also: Finnish grammar, participles, nominalization, compound noun phrases.

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