jäänyttä

Jäänyttä is a Finnish word form that functions as the partitive singular of the past participle jäänyt, meaning “left over” or “remaining.” It is used as an adjective-like modifier to describe an indefinite or unconsumed quantity of something. In everyday language, jäänyttä is most commonly found with mass nouns such as food or drink.

Grammar and usage notes:

- Jäänyttä describes something that has not been consumed or finished. It typically accompanies mass nouns in the partitive case, for example jäänyttä ruokaa (leftover food) or jäänyttä kahvia (leftover coffee).

- With countable nouns, speakers may use the plural form of the noun and a corresponding participle form, but in everyday speech many leftovers are still referred to with the mass-noun construction in partitive singular.

- As a non-finite form of jäänyt, jäänyttä can occur in various syntactic positions, including after a form of olla in predicate constructions, though it is most frequent as a pre-nominal modifier.

Examples:

- Lautasella oli jäänyttä ruokaa. (There was leftover food on the plate.)

- Keittiön pöydällä lojui jäänyttä kahvia. (There was leftover coffee on the kitchen table.)

- Tapahtuma jäi viime hetkillä jäänyttä puuhaa. (The event remained unfinished business.)

Etymology:

- Jäänyttä derives from jäänyt, the past participle of jäädä, with the suffix -nyttä forming the partitive of the participle.

See also:

- jäänyt, jäädä, Finnish participles

- partitive case in Finnish grammar

Jäänyttä is a common, informal expression in everyday Finnish for referring to what remains after something has been consumed or completed.