Luuletatud

Luuletatud is the past passive participle of the Estonian verb luuletama, meaning to compose poetry. It functions as an adjective describing text or speech that has been turned into poetry or expressed in a poetical style. The form is built with the suffix -tatud and agrees with the noun it modifies (for example, luuletatud tekst, luuletatud lause).

It can appear predicatively, as in Tekst on luuletatud, or attributively, as in luuletatud tekst. In usage, luuletatud denotes a deliberate stylistic choice: prose or speech that employs poetic devices such as metaphor, parallelism, rhythm, or heightened diction, giving it a poetic character. The term is most common in literary criticism and stylistic analysis; it is less frequent in everyday language.

Luuletatud can also describe works where verse techniques have been applied to prose or where lyrics have been adapted into poem-like form. While it signals a strong poetic quality, it does not imply that the original form was strictly a poem, only that the language or structure has been given a poetry-oriented treatment.

Related concepts include luuletaja (poet), luuletus (poem), and luule (poetry). The term is part of the broader Estonian vocabulary for discussing stylistic adaptations and the boundaries between prose and verse.