toimittavien

Toimittavien is a Finnish grammatical form that appears in the language as the genitive plural of the present participle adjective toimittava, derived from the verb toimittaa, meaning to deliver or supply. As a participial adjective, toimittava describes entities that perform the action of delivering or supplying. When it takes the genitive plural ending -ien, it becomes toimittavien and is used to modify a following noun in phrases such as toimittavien yritysten, meaning “the supplying/delivering companies’” or “of the supplying companies.”

In practice, toimittavien is most commonly encountered in administrative, legal, or procurement texts. It functions as a modifier that identifies a group by the action they perform. For example, in the phrase toimittavien yritysten määrä, the word toimittavien describes the type of companies (those that supply/deliver), and yhdessä with the noun it forms a genitive construction meaning “the number of supplying companies.”

Usage notes and distinctions:

- toimittavien is not a standalone noun; it is a participial adjective inflected to match a plural genitive noun.

- The base noun for people or entities that deliver is often toimittaja (supplier/editor). Its genitive plural is toimittajien, which is a different form from toimittavien and serves to describe a group named as suppliers in a more noun-like way.

- The two forms can appear in similar contexts, but they are distinct grammatically and can convey slightly different nuances about agency and attribution.

See also: toimittaja, toimittaminen, toimittaminen.