Keräämiä

Keräämiä is a Finnish inflected form derived from the verb kerätä, meaning to collect. It is the partitive plural form of the nominalized past active participle keräämä and is used to describe objects that have been collected. In practice, keräämiä appears in noun phrases such as keräämiä marjoja (“berries that have been collected”) where the head noun is in the partitive case.

Usage and nuance: keräämiä emphasizes that the items resulted from a collecting action carried out by someone, with the agent often unspecified or understood from context. It typically appears with plural nouns in partitive contexts, especially within sentences that describe objects obtained or produced by collecting. The form can be contrasted with other participial constructions in Finnish, such as kerätyt marjat, which generally conveys a more straightforward passive sense (“the berries that were collected”).

Related forms and alternatives: keräämiä is partitive plural when modifying a plural noun (for example, marjoja). Other related forms include keräämä (a non-finite participle used in various contexts) and kerätty (the standard passive past participle, often rendering a neutral “collected” sense). The choice between keräämiä and kerätyt depends on nuance and syntactic requirements, such as the case governed by the governing verb and whether the reference time or aspect is being emphasized.

Examples:

- Ostin keräämiä marjoja. (I bought berries that had been collected.)

- Hän toi pöytään keräämiä mansikoita. (He brought berries that had been collected.)