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 car).

- käytettynä, an adverbial/essive-like form meaning “being used” or “in its used state,” and used in various contexts to describe condition or manner.

- käytettyjen, the genitive plural form used to modify a noun in the genitive (käytettyjen autojen = of used cars).

- käytettyinä, the plural essive form meaning “as used [items]” in appropriate constructions (käytettyinä esineinä = as used items).

If käytettyen appears in a text, it is prudent to treat it as nonstandard, likely erroneous, or as a rare dialectal/archaic variant. For clarity and compliance with standard Finnish, it should be replaced with the appropriate standard form according to the syntactic role intended (käytetty, käytettynä, käytettyjen, käytettyinä, etc.).

See also: käyttö, käyttää, käytetty, käytettynä, käytettyjen, käytettyinä.