toimetavate

Toimetavate is an Estonian grammatical form used as the genitive plural of the participial adjective toimetatav, derived from the verb toimetama, meaning to edit or to handle. The adjective toimetatav describes something that can be edited or processed. As a genitive plural, toimetavate appears in noun phrases where the head noun is in the genitive plural, indicating the set or collection of items that are editable.

In practice, toimetavate is not a standalone noun but a morphological variant that agrees with the case and number of the noun it modifies. A common parallel form is the nominative plural toimetatavad, meaning “the editable files” or “the items that can be edited” when the noun is in the nominative. The genitive plural form is used in contexts such as describing a group or quantity of items whose editability is relevant, for example in phrases like toimetatavate failide nimekiri, roughly “the list of editable files,” or toimetatavate artiklite autorid, “the authors of editable articles,” depending on sentence structure.

Etymologically, the form originates from toimetama (to edit) plus the participial suffix -atav to create toimetatav (editable), with a genitive plural suffix attached to yield toimetavate in appropriate constructions. The term frequently appears in technical, administrative, or documentation-related texts where properties of documents or data sets are described.

See also Estonian grammar, participial adjectives, toimetama.