Suhteutettuja

Suhteutettuja is a Finnish linguistic term that refers to elements in sentences that have undergone relativization. The form is the plural of the past participle adjective suhettettu, which means “relativized” or “made relative,” and it is used to describe multiple items that express a relationship to an antecedent in a clause or phrase.

In grammar, suhteutettuja typically appears in discussions of relative clauses and related constructions, where a noun phrase is linked to another part of the sentence through a relative relation. The term is most often encountered in formal or theoretical descriptions of Finnish syntax, rather than in everyday language usage. It helps linguists distinguish structures that explicitly encode a relationship to an antecedent from other clause types.

A common everyday example of a relative relation in Finnish is a sentence like “Talo, jonka katto on punainen, on vanha,” which translates to “The house whose roof is red is old.” Here the relative relation is expressed through a dependent clause describing the noun taustan (the house) with the relative content (the roof is red). When discussing multiple such constructions, a scholar might refer to “suhteutettuja lauseita” or simply “suhteutettuja” as a shorthand for the set of relativized structures under analysis.

Suhteutettuja is thus a specialized term used to categorize and discuss certain syntactic configurations in Finnish. It is primarily found in linguistic literature, grammars, and scholarly articles dealing with relative clauses, relativization processes, and the formal properties of Finnish sentence structure.