Kuivunutta

Kuivunutta is a Finnish participial adjective form derived from the verb kuivua, meaning to dry up. It represents the past participle kuivunut in the singular partitive and is used to describe something that has dried to some extent but still exists as a thing or substance. In practice, kuivunutta commonly appears with mass nouns or indefinite objects, for example kuivunutta maata (dried land/soil), kuivunutta ruohoa (dried grass), or kuivunutta leipää (dried bread).

In predicative constructions you typically use kuivunut rather than kuivunutta, for example Maa on kuivunut (The soil has dried) rather than Maa on kuivunutta. The form kuivunutta is most common in attributive or nouns in the partitive case, where the object is indefinite or non-countable, or in contexts expressing a state resulting from past drying.

Usage contexts include agriculture, environmental reporting, and descriptive prose in literature, where the state of something having dried is relevant. It can convey partial or complete drying, and it often appears in phrases describing weather effects, drought, or preserved food that has been dried.

Etymology and related forms: kuivunutta comes from the verb kuivua, through the past participle kuivunut, with the singular partitive ending -a (-ta) to yield -unutta in combination with the noun. Related forms include kuivunut (predicative or attributive masculine/feminine forms) and the base adjective kuivaa (dry).