Pienennettyä

Pienennettyä is a Finnish grammatical form, specifically the partitive singular of the past passive participle pienennetty, derived from the verb pienentää meaning to reduce or to lessen. In Finnish, participles that modify a noun agree with the noun’s case and number. When the head noun is in the partitive case, the participle takes the partitive ending, producing pienennettyä.

Usage and meaning

Pienennettyä signals that something has been reduced or diminished and is used before a noun in partitive form. This construction is common in contexts such as pricing, quantities, and resources, where the object of description is treated as a non-count or indefinite amount. The overall sense is “the reduced [X]” or “reduced amount of [X].”

Examples

Tarjous koskee pienennettyä hintaa. (The offer concerns the reduced price.)

Myynti koskee pienennettyä kappalemäärää. (Sales apply to the reduced quantity per item.)

In other contexts, if the noun is in nominative or another case, the attributive form would reflect that case, for example pienennetty hinta in nominative singular.

Relation to other forms

Pienennettyä contrasts with pienennetty, the nominative singular form, which would modify a noun in the nominative case, such as pienennetty hinta. The choice between pienennettyä and pienennetty depends on the grammatical role of the head noun in the sentence.

See also

Pienentää, pienennys, Finnish grammar, participles.