Piirrettystä

Piirrettystä is a Finnish inflected form of the past passive participle of the verb piirtää, meaning to draw. In practice it functions as an adjective describing something that has been drawn or illustrated. The form is used within noun phrases to indicate that the referenced item has been created by drawing, for example in contexts involving diagrams, maps, figures or artworks.

The exact meaning of piirrettystä depends on the surrounding grammar, but in common usage it acts similarly to the English “drawn” or “illustrated.” It often appears in phrases where the participle relates to a following noun in genitive or to a noun in an oblique case, yielding expressions such as “piirrettystä kartasta” (from the drawn map) or “piirrettystä kuvasta” (from the drawn image). These constructions are typical in descriptive, technical or academic Finnish where a distinction is made between things that exist in a drawn form versus those that are not.

Usage considerations include agreement with the noun it modifies and the case of that noun. The participial form can adapt to different syntactic needs, so writers choose the exact inflected shape to fit the sentence structure. In many Finnish texts, piirrettystä serves as a concise way to convey that the content originated through drawing rather than photography, scanning, or other methods.

See also: piirtää, piirto, piirrettu.