Hitetyistä

Hitetyistä is a Finnish grammatical form that appears as the plural elative form of a past passive participle often described in sources as hitetty. The exact form and its use depend on the underlying verb and the syntactic context, but in general hitetyistä can be translated as “from those who have been hit” or more broadly “of the ones who have been hit.” It is most commonly encountered in formal, written Finnish, especially in descriptive passages that name or categorize people or objects by an action that has affected them.

Etymology and form

The base is a passive past participle built from a verb meaning to strike, hit, or affect, combined with the standard Finnish participle suffix and the plural elative suffix -stä/-istä. The resulting phrase functions as a noun phrase constituent that points to the source group (the people or items that have experienced the action described by the participle). Because Finnish participles and cases can be combined in various ways, hitetyistä may appear alongside nouns in contexts such as reports, statistics, or scholarly writing.

Usage

Hitetyistä is used when the writer wants to refer to a group defined by having been hit or affected. For example, it may appear in sentences like: Hitetyistä ihmisistä kerättiin todistusaineistoa. Translation: Evidence was collected from the people who have been hit. The form is more common in formal documentation than in everyday speech.

See also

- Finnish grammar

- Past participles in Finnish

- Elative case (Finnish)

References

- Finnish language grammar resources on participles and case endings

- Descriptive linguistics texts on Finnish inflection and noun-phrase formation