ylläpitettävänä

Ylläpitettävänä is a Finnish linguistic form derived from the verb ylläpitää, meaning to maintain or uphold. It is the essive form (ending -nä) of the verbal adjective ylläpitettävä, and it expresses a state or role: something that is to be maintained or that must be kept in maintenance. In practice, the phrase signals an obligation or a planned condition rather than a completed action.

Usage and meaning

The form is common in technical, regulatory, and project planning texts where items, systems, or facilities are described in terms of their maintenance status. It can function as a predicative phrase or as part of a noun phrase labeling requirements. For example, in a document one might encounter: Järjestelmä on ylläpitettävänä, or Laitteet ovat ylläpitettavina laitteistokustannusten hallitsemiseksi. The nuance is that these items are designated to be kept in a maintained state.

Relation to related forms

Ylläpitettävänä is related to ylläpitettävä, which means “to be maintained,” and to ylläpidetty, which means “maintained” (past participle). The essive case (-nä) marks a temporary or contextual state, distinguishing it from completed maintenance. In texts, the form is typically used to express future maintenance requirements or ongoing responsibility.

Translations and scope

In English, riippant context, ylläpitettävänä can be translated as “to be maintained” or “maintainable” depending on the sentence. It is most common in formal or technical writing and is characteristic of Finnish grammatical practice for expressing state roles in maintenance contexts.