Lähetetty

Lähetetty is the past passive participle of the Finnish verb lähettää, meaning to send or to dispatch. It denotes that something has been sent or transmitted and is commonly used as both a predicate and an attributive adjective. As a participle it can function in sentences like “Viesti on lähetetty” (The message has been sent) or modify a noun, for example “lähetetty kirje” or “lähetetty paketti,” to indicate the item’s status.

In usage, lähetetty is frequent in everyday communication as well as in administrative and logistics contexts. It appears on forms, status updates, and notices to mark that a document, package, notification, or other item has been forwarded to the recipient or onward to another party. The form agrees with the noun it modifies in number and case, and it can take inflected forms such as lähetetyn kirjan (of the sent book) or lähetettyjen viestien (the sent messages).

Semantically,lähetetty contrasts with its related state meaning “not yet sent,” and with verbs indicating the act of sending in the active voice. It is also used in phrases describing how something was delivered, for example “lähetys lähetetty sähköpostitse” (the shipment sent by email).

Etymologically, lähetetty is derived from the verb lähettää, through the standard Finnish past passive participle formation. It is a common, neutral term in Finnish for indicating that an item has been dispatched, whether by mail, courier, or electronic transmission.