Tukahdutettua

Tukahdutettua is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the verb tukahduttaa, which means to suffocate, smother, or suppress. Tukahdutettua is the partitive singular form of the passive past participle tukahdettu, and it functions as a participial adjective describing a noun in the partitive case.

In Finnish grammar, the passive past participle expresses a completed action applied to the object. When the described noun is in the partitive case, the participle takes the corresponding partitive form, resulting in tukahdutettua. For example, tukahdutettua ilmaa means air that has been smothered or restricted, with ilmaa being the partitive form of ilma (air). Likewise, tukahdutettua vastarintaa can refer to resistance that has been suppressed. The same participle can appear in other cases with the appropriate inflection, such as tukahdutetun valtion (genitive) or tukahdutettuja iltoja (plural partitive in a different construction).

Semantically, tukahdutettua covers both physical and figurative meanings: it can describe something physically smothered or blocked, as well as ideas, speech, or emotions that have been suppressed or censored. The term is common in literary, analytical, or technical contexts where the result of suppression is being described.

Related terms include tukahduttaa (the verb, “to smother/suppress”) and tukahdutus (the act or process of suppression). Tukahdutettua is not typically used in everyday speech as a stand-alone noun; it appears as part of a larger noun phrase where the object is in the partitive case. See also: tukahduttaa, tukahdutus, passive participles in Finnish grammar.