Pyydettyä

Pyydettyä is a Finnish linguistic expression formed from the verb pyytää, meaning “to ask” or “to request.” It represents the past passive participle pyydetty in its partitive singular form, used attributively before a noun in the partitive case to indicate that the noun is the object of a request. In essence, pyydettyä labels something as having been requested.

Morphology and syntax work as follows: pyydettyä precedes a noun in partitive in phrases such as pyydettyä materiaalia, pyydettyä tietoa, or pyydettyä palautetta. The construction signals that the item has been the subject of a request rather than existing independently. This form is common in descriptive or analytical Finnish where researchers discuss data, materials, or feedback that have been specifically asked for.

Usage and interpretation: In everyday Finnish, speakers typically use the concrete noun phrases without emphasizing the underlying participial form. The pyydettyä construction is more likely to appear in linguistic analysis, academic writing, or precise documentation of a data-collection process, where it helps to distinguish between what was requested and what was not. It does not function as a separate lexical item; rather, it is a grammatical form that modifies the following noun.

Examples of the pattern include pyydettyä materiaalia (requested material), pyydettyä tietoa (requested information), and pyydettyä palautetta (requested feedback). While it can appear in formal registers, the form is not a widely independent term outside descriptive contexts.

See also: pyytää, pyydetty, pyyntö.