Käyttämät

Käyttämät is a Finnish form that is not part of standard, productive Finnish inflection. It is derived from the verb käyttää, meaning “to use,” but in contemporary Finnish it is not listed as a common dictionary form or as a standard participial form. The usual past passive participle is käytetty, and its plural form is yleensä käytetyt. As such, käyttämät does not have a clear, widely accepted grammatical role in modern Finnish and is typically considered nonstandard, dialectal, or archaic.

In practice, if you encounter a phrase that looks like käyttämät, it is more likely a misspelling or a regional variation of the standard forms. For example, the intended meaning “the items that have been used” would correctly be expressed as käytetyt esineet in standard Finnish. Writers from certain dialects or historical sources may have experimented with forms that resemble käyttämät, but these are not standard and should be avoided in formal or contemporary usage.

Grammatically, Finnish participles are built from the verb stem and a set of published endings to mark tense, voice, number, and case. The presence of a form like käyttämät highlights the variability found in real-language data, but it also underscores the importance of relying on standard inflection for clear communication. Standard alternatives to express similar meaning include käytetyt (used) or käytössä olleita (ones that have been used, depending on context).

See also: käyttää, käytetty, käytetyt, käyttämättömyys, kielioppi.