Tukkeutuneen

Tukkeutuneen is a Finnish grammatical form that appears in noun phrases describing something that has become clogged or obstructed. It is the genitive singular form of the past participle tukkeutunut (clogged/blocked) and is used to describe a noun that is part of a genitive construction, typically when a head noun such as tilavuus, paine, tai korjaus is involved.

In practice, tukkeutuneen is used to convey that the associated object is clogged. It commonly occurs in technical, engineering, plumbing, and diagnostic contexts, but can also appear in everyday language when precision is needed. The phrase often combines with a genitive noun to form a complete meaning, for example tukkeutuneen putken tilavuus (“the volume of the clogged pipe”) or tukkeutuneen ilmanvaihtojärjestelmän korjaus (“the repair of the clogged ventilation system”). The head noun in such phrases is typically in the nominative, while the dependent noun is in the genitive, and tukkeutuneen supplies the descriptive attribute to the dependent noun.

Related terms include tukkeutunut, the base participle meaning clogged, and tukkeutuminen, the noun form meaning the act or state of clogging. These forms share the same semantic field and are used across similar descriptive constructions.

Notes on usage: tukkeutuneen is not a standalone word with independent meaning; it functions within a noun phrase to indicate condition (being clogged). Correct usage relies on aligning the case of the noun being described (often genitive) with the overall syntactic role of the phrase in the sentence.