Kiinnitetyistä

Kiinnitetyistä is a Finnish inflected form of the past passive participle kiinnitetty, which comes from the verb kiinnittää meaning to attach or fix. The form kiinnitetyistä represents the elative plural, typically translated as from the attached ones or of the attached ones. It is used when referring to multiple items that have been attached to something, such as documents, notes, or other materials, and the speaker or writer is indicating origin or source.

In practice, kiinnitetyistä appears mainly in formal or technical language. It is less common in everyday speech, where kiinnitettyjä (attached ones in the partitive plural) or kiinnitetyt (the attached ones in the nominative plural) are more likely, depending on the syntactic role. As a participial adjective, kiinnitetyistä can modify a plural noun within a larger noun phrase, for example in a context like “kiinnitetyistä asiakirjoista” to mean “from the attached documents.” The exact interpretation depends on the surrounding sentence and case usage.

Grammatically, kiinnitetyistä is part of Finnish inflection where the -stä ending marks the elative plural, signaling origin or source. The form illustrates how Finnish uses participles as adjectives that agree with the number and case of the nouns they describe. Etymologically, it builds on kiinnitetty (the past passive participle) from kiinnittää, with the -istä ending applying to plural references in the elative case.

See also: kiinnittää, kiinnitetty, liite, liitteet.