ttavapääte
ttavapääte is the Finnish linguistic term for the suffix -ttava/-ttävä, a derivational ending attached to verb stems to form deverbal adjectives or participles. The ending conveys a sense of “to be done” or “to be performed,” and the resulting words can describe a noun or function as predicative adjectives.
In use, ttavapääte typically creates adjectives that indicate something is to be acted upon, required, or capable
The ttavapääte is distinct from the present active participle suffix -va/-vä, which describes ongoing action. In
Historically, the suffix has been a standard part of Finnish derivational morphology and appears across a wide