Esittelemä

Esittelemä is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the verb esitellä, meaning to present or introduce. It functions as a participial adjective that can modify a noun, typically signaling a relation to presenting something or to something that has been presented. The precise meaning is influenced by context, so esittelemä can be understood as roughly “the presenting” or “presented,” depending on how it is used in a clause.

In practice, esittelemä appears most often in formal writing and journalism. Examples include phrases such as "yrityksen esittelemä tiedote" (the press release presented by the company) and "tutkijan esittelemät tulokset" (the results presented by the researcher). The form helps to encode attribution or provenance within a noun phrase without using a separate relative clause.

Esittelemä is part of Finnish’s system of participial modifiers and is related to other participial forms derived from esittää/esitellä, such as the present active participle esittelevä (presenting) and the past participle esitelty (presented). While esittelevä emphasizes an ongoing presenting action, esittelemä in a noun phrase often foregrounds the act of presenting or the presenter in question, depending on context.

Etymology: from the verb esitellä, through the Finnish participial/attributive formation patterns common to the language.

See also:

- esittely

- esittelevä

- esitelty

- väite