Määrittelemien

Määrittelemien is a Finnish inflected form of the present active participle derived from the verb määritellä, meaning to define or specify. In grammar, määrittelemä- forms function as adjectives or adjective-like participles that describe a noun. The specific form määrittelemien is the genitive plural form used when the participle modifies a noun in the genitive plural, allowing a combined noun phrase to express “the defined terms/conditions” or “the terms that have been defined.”

The form is most common in formal or technical language, such as legal, contractual, or policy texts, where it is important to refer to terms, criteria, or conditions that have been specified elsewhere. Typical constructions include sopimuksen määrittelemien ehtojen mukaan (according to the defined terms of the contract) or määrittelemien kriteerien perusteella (based on the defined criteria). In these phrases, määrittelemien agrees in number and case with the noun it describes, here ehtojen or kriteerien, which are in genitive plural.

Morphology and related forms: määrite- comes from määritellä, and the participle has several inflected forms for different cases, numbers, and definiteness. Other related forms include määrittelemä (the defining/defined [singular]), and various case-specific variants used in attributive position. The use of määrittelemien illustrates Finnish’s capacity to incorporate relative information directly into noun phrases through participial adjectives.

See also: määritelmä (definition), määrittelemä (defining/defined), participial adjectives in Finnish.