Tarkennettuun

Tarkennettuun is a Finnish grammatical form. It is the illative form of the past passive participle tarkennettu, which comes from the verb tarkentaa meaning to clarify, specify, or refine. In Finnish, the illative case marks movement toward or reference to something, and when tarkennettu accompanies a noun in illative, the phrase conveys “to a clarified” or “to the refined” version or element.

Morphology and usage

Tarkennettu is a participle that functions as an adjective and agrees with the noun it modifies. The form tarkennettuun appears when the accompanying noun is in illative case, creating phrases such as tarkennettuun kysymykseen or tarkennettuun versioon. In practice, tarkennettuun is used in formal or written Finnish to indicate that the referenced item has been refined, clarified, or specified.

Common contexts

The form often appears in academic, technical, or guideline-style texts where precision and revision are emphasized. It can modify nouns like kysymys (question), versio (version), ohje (instruction), or kuvaus (description), indicating that the referenced item has undergone refinement.

Examples

- Tarkennettuun kysymykseen vastattiin. (A response was given to the clarified question.)

- Teksti on päivitetty tarkennettuun versioon. (The text has been updated to the refined version.)

Etymology and meaning

The word is built from tarkentaa (to clarify/specify) plus tarkennettu (past passive participle) and inflected into illative form tarkennettuun. The overall sense is directional or referential, pointing to something that has been made more precise.

See also

Finnish grammar, tarkentaa, tarkennettu, illative case, Finnish participles.