Puhuttuja

Puhuttuja is a Finnish grammatical form that functions as the plural partitive of the past passive participle of the verb puhua, meaning to speak. In practice, puhuttuja acts like an adjective and modifies a plural noun, indicating that the described nouns refer to things that were spoken rather than written.

As a participial form, puhuttuja is built from the stem of the past passive participle puhuttu and the partitive plural suffix -ja/-jä. It is used when the governing noun is in partitive plural, for example in phrases like puhuttuja sanoja (spoken words) or puhuttuja tarinoita (spoken stories). The same participle can appear in other cases with corresponding endings, such as puhuttujen sanojen (of the spoken words) in genitive plural.

Usage notes: puhuttuja by itself is not a standalone noun; it requires a nouns to modify. Its meaning centers on the fact that the nouns describe speech or utterances that have occurred, contrasting with written forms (kirjallisia sanoja) in some contexts. In everyday language, puhuttuja is most common in phrases discussing oral discourse, quotations derived from spoken language, or descriptions of oral traditions.

See also: Finnish grammar, participles, past passive participle puhuttu, partitive case, adjectives in Finnish.