Kysytyssä

Kysytyssä is a Finnish word that appears as an inflected form related to the verb kysyä, meaning “to ask.” In Finnish grammar, past passive participles can function as adjectives and take various case endings. Kysytyssä would represent the inessive form, effectively translating to “in the asked” or, more naturally, to a state associated with something that has been asked in a given context.

In practice, kysytyssä is not a common standalone term in contemporary Finnish prose. It would typically occur as part of a larger noun phrase where the accompanying noun is in the inessive case, for example in literary or highly specialized language. The meaning largely depends on context and can feel evasive or archaic to modern readers.

Related words help place kysytyssä within the language system: kysyä (to ask), kysymys (a question), kysely (an inquiry or survey), and kysytty (the past passive participle “asked”). The form kysytyssä illustrates how Finnish uses participial adjectives with substantive endings to convey nuanced relations to action.

Because of its rarity outside of grammatical description or literary usage, kysytyssä is primarily of interest to students of Finnish morphology and syntax rather than as a word used in everyday communication. Further examples are typically found in grammar references or language-learning materials that discuss participial forms and case endings in Finnish.