Erilaistettuna

Erilaistettuna is a Finnish participial form meaning “as differentiated” or “in a differentiated form.” It is derived from the verb erilaistaa, which means to differentiate or distinguish between variants, types, or categories. The form erilaistettuna is commonly used in technical or academic language to describe something that has been separated or classified according to defined criteria, and is presented or treated in that differentiated state. The word functions grammatically as an essive form, indicating a temporary or descriptive state.

In practice, erilaistettuna appears in contexts such as data presentation, research methods, or methodological descriptions, where items, samples, or results are shown or analyzed by different categories. For example, a dataset can be described as presented erilaistettuna by category, or materials can be shown erilaistettuna according to their properties. The term is more frequent in written, formal Finnish than in everyday speech, and it often occurs alongside other differentiation-related concepts such as erilaistaminen (the act of differentiating) and eriyttäminen (differentiation or segregation by criteria).

Etymology-wise, erilaistettuna is built from erilaistaa (to differentiate) with the passive/past participle suffix and the essive case ending -na, yielding a phrase that denotes a state of being differentiated.

See also: erilaistaminen, eriyttäminen, erilaisten luokitusten mukaista käsittelyä. In English, the closest translation is “differentiated” or “presented in a differentiated form.”