Kuluttamallaan

Kuluttamallaan is a Finnish participial form derived from the verb kuluttaa, meaning to consume or expend. In grammar, it functions as a means or instrument phrase within a sentence, indicating that an action was performed using resources that have been consumed. The form is formed from the past active participle stem kuluttama- and is inflected to express the instrumental sense, often appearing together with the adessive case.

In use, kuluttamallaan typically accompanies a noun in the adessive case to specify the means, resources, or instruments by which an action was carried out. For example, Hän osti talon kuluttamallaan rahalla can be translated as “He bought the house with the money he had spent/consumed.” The construction is most common in written Finnish, particularly in descriptive, narrative, or analytical prose, and it can convey nuance about prior expenditure or resource use.

The form is part of broader Finnish participial and case systems that allow speakers to attach instrumental meaning to nouns through adjective-like participles. While it is recognizable to readers of formal Finnish, kuluttamallaan is less frequent in everyday speech, where simpler expressions of means are typically used.

See also: Finnish grammar of participles, adessive case, instrumental constructions, and means-of-action expressions.