esitettyä

Esitettyä is a Finnish grammatical form used in noun phrases to denote content that has been presented. It is the partitive singular form of the past passive participle esitetty, which comes from the verb esittää, meaning to present or to propose. In practice, esitettyä modifies a noun in the partitive case and signals that the presented content is being referred to in an indefinite or non-countable sense.

Grammatical role and formation

Esitettyä functions as a modifier rather than a standalone word. It combines the past passive participle esitetty with the partitive suffix -ä, producing esitettyä before a noun such as tietoa (information) or aineistoa (data/material). This construction is common in formal and scholarly writing when the writer wants to specify the information or material that has been presented, without asserting it as a definite, countable item.

Usage notes

- Typical contexts include reporting, research, and official documents where authors discuss what has been presented by themselves or others.

- It emphasizes the content that has been presented rather than the act of presenting.

- Examples: Esitettyä tietoa käytettiin päätöksenteossa. Raportissa käsiteltiin esitettyä aineistoa.

Relation to other forms

Esitettyä is related to the base participle esitetty and to other declined forms in Finnish grammar. While esitetty as an adjective can modify singular or plural nouns in nominative, esitettyä specifically marks the partitive object, often reflecting indefinite quantity or non-countable content.

See also

esittää, esitetty (past participle), partitive case, Finnish grammar