Levitetty

Levitetty is a Finnish adjective and the past passive participle of the verb levittää, meaning to spread or distribute. It denotes that something has been spread, extended, or disseminated, either physically across a surface or geographically, or more abstractly, such as information, ideas, or influence.

Etymology and function: Levitetty is formed from levittää with the suffix -tty to create the past passive participle. In Finnish, past participles function as adjectives and are declined to agree with the noun they modify. This allows levitetty to appear in various cases and numbers, for example levitetty näyte (nominative singular) or levitetyn näytteen (genitive).

Usage: Levitetty is common in formal, scientific, administrative, and journalistic texts. It can describe materials or substances that have been spread on a surface (levitetty jauhe pöydällä) or the diffusion of information or phenomena (sanoma on levitetty koko maahan; tieto on levitetty laajalle). The term may also appear in legal or regulatory contexts to indicate that a directive or guideline has been disseminated to relevant parties.

Examples of inflection in context: levitetty näyte (nominative singular), levitetyn näytteen (genitive), levitettyä näytettä (partitive), levitetystä näytteestä (elative), levitetyllä näytteellä (inessive), levitetyt näytteet (nominative plural), levitettyjä näytteitä (partitive plural).

Related concepts include levittää (to spread), levitys (dissemination), levittäminen (the act of spreading), and levittäytyminen (dispersal).