edellytettiin
Edellytettiin is the past passive form of the Finnish verb edellyttää, meaning "to require" or "to entail." It is used to indicate that a condition, prerequisite, or obligation was placed on someone or something in the past. In formal or written Finnish, edellytettiin often appears in descriptions of requirements or standards that existed at a given time.
Grammatically, edellyttää is a transitive verb. Its past passive form edellytettiin corresponds to “it was required”
Related terms include edellytys (precondition, requirement) and edellyttää (present tense “to require”). The word family is
Etymology traces edellytetty back to edellytys, with the verb meaning evolving to express a condition that