Tutkituissa

Tutkituissa is a Finnish word that functions as the inessive plural form of the past participle tutkittu, meaning "investigated" or "studied." It is used as an adjective to describe nouns that have undergone examination or analysis.

In Finnish, participles can act like adjectives and must agree with the noun they modify in number and case. The suffix -issa in the inessive plural marks the sense of "in" or "in the state of" among multiple items. Therefore, tutkituissa modifies a plural noun and expresses that those items have been studied or examined.

Common contexts for tutkituissa include academic, scientific, and formal writing, where researchers refer to data, samples, cases, or results that have already been analyzed. For example, in phrases such as "tutkituissa näytteissä" (in the studied samples) or "tutkituissa tapauksissa" (in the studied cases), the term highlights that the subjects have undergone examination.

Examples:

- Tutkituissa näytteissä havaittiin epätyypillisiä signaaleja.

- Tutkituissa tapauksissa todettiin korrelaatio.

Related forms include tutkittu (singular past participle) and tutkittujen (genitive plural), which appear in other case or number configurations. Tutkituissa serves as a precise, formal way to reference materials or situations that have already been subjected to investigation.