hypätty

Hypätty is a Finnish past passive participle derived from the verb hyppää, meaning to jump. The form is created by attaching the suffix -tty to the stem hyppä-, yielding hypätty, which functions as an adjective or as part of a predicate with an auxiliary verb to indicate that something has been jumped. It is used to describe an action that was carried out on the subject by an agent, often without explicitly naming who performed the action.

In practice, hypätty describes things or situations that involve jumping and is most readily understood in contexts such as sports, navigation, or descriptions of routes and obstacles. The active counterpart of this verb is hypännyt, the past participle meaning “has jumped” or “jumped” when the subject performs the action. The key distinction is that hypätty (past passive) denotes that the jumping occurred to or on the subject, whereas hypännyt (active) refers to the subject performing the jumping.

Examples are common in written Finnish, where precise descriptions of actions are needed. A typical sentence is: Esteen yli on hypätty, meaning “The hurdle has been jumped over.” Hypätty can thus function in general descriptive text as well as in more technical or sports journalism language.

See also: hyppää (to jump), hypätty vs. hypännyt (passive vs. active past participles), hyppy (jump).