Käytettyen
Käytettyen is not a standard Finnish word and does not appear in contemporary Finnish dictionaries. In practice, it is generally regarded as a nonstandard form, a potential misspelling, or an archaic/dialectal variant of related forms derived from the verb käyttää (to use). There is no widely accepted grammatical function for käytettyen in modern Finnish, and it is not recognized as a normative inflection.
In standard Finnish, the closest related forms are clearly attested and regularly used:
- käytetty, the past participle meaning "used," typically functioning as a descriptive adjective (käytetty auto = a used
- käytettynä, an adverbial/essive-like form meaning “being used” or “in its used state,” and used in various
- käytettyjen, the genitive plural form used to modify a noun in the genitive (käytettyjen autojen = of
- käytettyinä, the plural essive form meaning “as used [items]” in appropriate constructions (käytettyinä esineinä = as used
If käytettyen appears in a text, it is prudent to treat it as nonstandard, likely erroneous, or
See also: käyttö, käyttää, käytetty, käytettynä, käytettyjen, käytettyinä.