Säilytettyjä

Säilytettyjä is the plural partitive form of säilytetty, the passive past participle of the verb säilyttää, meaning to preserve, keep, or store. The form signals that the described items have undergone a preservation process or are kept in a preserved condition. In Finnish, participles function as adjectives and agree with the noun they modify in number and case, so säilytettyjä is used with plural nouns in the partitive case.

Usage and examples help illustrate its function. Säilytettyjä is commonly found with food and other stored objects, for example säilytettyjä marjoja (preserved berries), säilytettyjä vihanneksia (preserved vegetables), or säilytettyjä elintarvikkeita (preserved foods). It can also describe preserved archival materials or artifacts, such as säilytettyjä asiakirjoja (preserved documents) or säilytettyjä esineitä (preserved items). The form is most typical when the object is indefinite or is part of a larger whole or discussion, as Finnish often uses partitive for non-specific quantities or conditional contexts.

Relation to other forms is straightforward: the singular nominative form is säilytetty, and the singular partitive is säilytettävää or säilytettyä depending on syntactic role; the plural nominative is säilytetyttä (rarely used in everyday language) and the plural partitive is säilytettyjä. Overall, säilytettyjä functions as a neutral descriptor of objects that have been or are kept in a preserved state.