Löydettyä

löydettyä is a Finnish grammatical form, the partitive singular of the passive past participle löydetty, which comes from the verb löytää (to find). The form is used to describe something that has been found and to modify a head noun in contexts where the noun is in the partitive case. In practice, löydettyä appears in noun phrases such as found objects or found amounts.

Morphology and usage

The base participle löydetty functions as a passive past participle meaning “found.” When the head noun is in the partitive case, the participle takes the partitive ending, yielding löydettyä. For example, found money can be expressed as löydettyä rahaa, and found items as löydettyä esineistöä. In plural contexts, the corresponding form is löydettyjä, as in löydettyjä esineitä (found items). Löydettyä is thus a dependent, attributive form that does not stand alone as a separate word but modifies a following noun phrase.

Examples and contexts

- Poliisit tutkivat löydettyä rahaa ja kolikoita. (The police investigated the found money and coins.)

- Arkeologit dokumentoivat löydettyä esineistöä, joka varastotaan museoon. (Archaeologists document the found items to be added to the museum collection.)

Notes

löydettyä is a grammatical form rather than a lexical item, and it is most commonly seen in written narratives, inventories, and reports describing discoveries, finds, or quantities that are not fully definite. Etymologically, it combines the passive past participle stem of löytää with the Finnish partitive suffix -ä.