tarjottavassa

Tarjottavassa is a form in Finnish that arises from the participial adjective tarjottava, itself derived from the verb tarjota, meaning "to offer" or "to provide." The participial suffix -ttava conveys the sense "to be offered" or "offerable." When the word is declined in the inessive case, it becomes tarjottavassa, which can be translated loosely as “in the thing to be offered” or, depending on the context, as a phrase describing something that is to be offered.

In ordinary use, tarjottavassa is relatively rare outside written or technical contexts. More common alternatives include tarjottava, used as an adjective before a noun (for example, tarjottava annos, meaning “the dish to be offered”) or the plural tarjottavat for items that are to be offered. The form tarjottavassa is most often encountered in sentences that require the inessive mood, for example to indicate that certain items are located within a set of offerings or within a context in which offerings are being described.

Grammatical notes: tarjottavassa is the singular inessive form of the adjective/noun tarjottava. Related forms include tarjottava (base form), tarjottavat (plural nominative), and tarjottavissa (plural inessive). The word illustrates Finnish use of the -ttava participle to create an adjective meaning “to be offered,” with case endings matching its syntactic role in a sentence.