Rasitettuja

Rasitettuja is a Finnish plural partitive form of the past passive participle rasitettu, which comes from the verb rasittaa meaning to burden, strain, or exhaust. The term is used to describe things or conditions that have undergone strain or load, rather than to describe the act of straining itself.

Grammatically, rasitettu is a participle that can function as an adjective. Its plural partitive form rasitettuja is used to modify plural nouns in the partitive case, typically when the object is indefinite or not fully defined. The corresponding singular form is rasitettu. The word often appears in contexts where something has been subjected to pressure, effort, or wear.

Usage and examples vary from literal to figurative. Common contexts include physical strain, such as rasitettuja lihaksia (exhausted muscles) or rasitettuja kuormia (overloaded loads), as well as figurative pressure, like rasitettuja oloja or rasitettuja tilanteita (stressed conditions or strained situations). In sports science, medicine, and everyday language, rasitettuja can convey that an element has experienced substantial load or fatigue.

Nuances and related terms: rasitus refers to the load or strain itself, while rasittaa is the verb “to strain” or “to burden.” Related concepts include väsymys (fatigue) and väsyminen (to become tired). Rasitettujen vastineita can appear in descriptions of equipment, resources, or human performance under constraint.

See also: Rasitus, Rasittaa, Väsyminen, Väsymys.