Kerätyille

Kerätyille is a Finnish grammatical form: the allative plural of the past participle kerätty, meaning collected. It is used to indicate direction toward or for a group described by a plural noun that refers to things that have been gathered. In practice, kerätyille appears in contexts where a collection or set of items is being referenced as the recipient or target of an action.

Formation and function: The form is created by taking the plural stem kerätyt (the collected ones) and adding the allative ending -ille, yielding kerätyille. The corresponding singular form is kerätylle, used with a singular noun such as kerätty esineelle in other constructions. Kerätyille typically modifies a plural noun or forms a NP that denotes the target of an action, translation-wise: “to/for the collected [items].”

Usage and examples: Kerätyille is common in formal or technical language, such as catalogues, inventories, museum labels, archives, and donation screens. Examples include:

- Kerätyille esineille on varattu tila näyttelyä varten. (A space has been reserved for the collected items.)

- Kaikki kerätyille lahjoituksille tehdyt kirjanpidot ovat ajan tasalla. (All records for the collected donations are up to date.)

Notes: Because kerätyille is a case-inflected form, it must accompany a noun in the plural and functions as a modifier or predicative phrase within a sentence. It is less common in everyday conversational Finnish and more likely to appear in institutional, academic, or administrative texts.

See also: Finnish grammar, allative case, past participles.