Julkaistuja

Julkaistuja is a Finnish linguistic form used as a participial adjective meaning “published” and is applied to multiple items. It does not denote a standalone concept or proper noun; rather, it describes items that have gone through the publishing process.

In grammar, julkaistuja is the partitive plural form of the passive past participle julkaistu, which comes from the verb julkaista “to publish.” It is typically used with a noun in partitive case to indicate the set of items that are published. Common combinations include julkaistuja teoksia (published works) and julkaistuja artikkeleita (published articles). The form is frequently encountered in bibliographies, catalog entries, library metadata, and literary criticism to distinguish published output from unpublished manuscripts or works in progress.

Usage notes include that julkaistuja appears in contexts where the emphasis is on the publication status of a collection of items, rather than on authorship or edition specifics. Because Finnish uses participial adjectives in many inflected forms, julkaistuja can partner with a variety of nouns to describe different published outputs, such as kirjoja (books), tutkimuksia (studies), tai tuotantoa (productions), depending on the context.

See also: julkaistu, julkistaminen, julkaisu.