Säädeltyinä

Säädeltyinä is a Finnish grammatical form that functions as the essive plural of the past passive participle säädelty, meaning regulated. In Finnish, the essive case marks a temporary state or role, so säädeltyinä conveys “as regulated” or “in the state of being regulated” when referring to multiple entities. The construction is typically used in formal or technical language to describe categories or groups that are subject to regulation.

Semantically, säädeltyinä denotes that the described items or subjects are regulated by rules or authorities. It is an inflectional form, not a separate lexical item; the base form is säädelty and the plural essive suffix -inä yields säädeltyinä. A common usage pattern is the combination with a noun in the essive plural to express “as regulated products” or similar meanings: for example, lääke­et säädeltyinä tuotteina kuuluvat erityisvaatimusten piiriin (medicines, as regulated products, fall under special requirements).

The form is most frequent in regulatory, policy, and legal texts, where it helps to group items or provisions by whether they are regulated. It can also appear in descriptive or comparative writing when contrasting regulated and non-regulated categories.

See also: säädelty, säädös, säätely, essive.