Pelastettujen

Pelastettujen is a Finnish grammatical form built from the verb pelastaa, meaning to save or rescue. Pelastettu is a past participle meaning “rescued” or “saved,” and pelastettujen is its genitive plural form. In use, pelastettujen functions as the modifier in phrases that describe or relate to a group of people or objects that have been rescued, with the head noun often in another case.

In practice, pelastettujen appears in expressions such as pelastettujen ihmisten (the rescued people), pelastettujen tarinat (the stories of the rescued), or pelastettujen nimet (the names of the rescued). Because Finnish uses a rich system of cases, pelastettujen typically accompanies a noun in the genitive to indicate possession or association, for example pelastettujen joukko or pelastettujen nimet.

Relation to other forms is straightforward: pelastettu is the base past participle; pelastetut is the nominative plural form used when the rescued are described as a group, while pelastettujen is the genitive plural form used to modify or indicate possession. The term is common in journalism, history, and literature when discussing survivors of disasters, conflicts, or dangerous situations, and can be translated as “of the rescued” or “the saved” depending on the sentence structure.

Etymologically, pelastettu derives from pelastaa with the suffix -ttu, forming a participle used as an adjective. Related terms include pelastajat ( rescuers) and pelastus (rescue, salvation).