Hävitetty

Hävitetty is the past passive participle of the Finnish verb hävittää, meaning destroyed or annihilated. It functions as an adjective or in compound tenses to describe something that has been destroyed by someone or something.

Form and grammar: The participle is formed from hävittää plus the suffix -tty; the plural form is hävitetyt. It can be used attributively (hävitetty rakennus) or predicatively (Rakennus on hävitetty). It covers both physical destruction, such as buildings or artifacts, and abstract obliteration, such as erasure of records.

Usage notes: Hävittäminen is the noun referring to the act of destroying; hävitetty indicates the result. The term appears in historical, military, archaeological, and legal texts, but also in everyday language when describing something that has been destroyed. It is distinct from tuhoutunut, which more often describes something that has perished or been ruined without specifying the agent of destruction.

Esimerkkejä: Kaupunkia on hävitetty sodan seurauksena. Kuvassa on hävitetty rakennus. Hävitetyt rakennukset ovat merkittäviä raunioita.