Soitettuina

Soitettuina is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the verb soittaa, meaning to play or perform music. In this context it is the essive plural form of the past passive participle soitettu, and it is used to describe items that are in the state of having been played or performed. The form is primarily encountered in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, and specialized musicology or cataloging prose rather than in everyday speech.

Morphology and formation can be described as taking the past passive participle soitettu and adding the essive plural suffix -ina/-inä, yielding soitettuina. This construction signals a collective or plural sense of “as having been played” or “in the form that has been played,” and it integrates with nouns in attributive or predicative positions in formal writing.

Usage and context are typically institutional or scholarly. Soitettuina appears in catalog notes, manuscript descriptors, or analytical discussions where multiple works or performances are being described collectively. It helps distinguish items that have undergone performance from those that are merely written, composed, or otherwise prepared.

Relation to broader grammar is that soitettuina sits within the Finnish participle system and the essive case, illustrating how participial forms can take case-like suffixes to express states or roles. While it is not common in everyday language, it serves as an example of the richness of Finnish morphology in academic or archival contexts.

See also: Finnish grammar, participles, essive case, passive voice.