käännetyn

Käännetyn is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective käännetty, meaning translated or having been translated. It arises from the past passive participle of the verb kääntää (to translate) and is used to describe a noun that has undergone translation from another language.

As an adjective, käännetty behaves like other Finnish adjectives and declines to agree with the noun it modifies in number and case. Common forms include käännetyn (genitive singular), käännettyjen (genitive plural), käännetyt (nominative plural), käännettyä (partitive singular), and käännettyjä (partitive plural). The form käännetyn specifically marks the genitive singular, typical in possessive or relational phrases such as “käännetyn kirjan juoni” (the plot of the translated book) or “käännetyn teoksen nimi” (the name of the translated work).

Usage and meaning: käännety has a broad bibliographic and literary prevalence, referring to works that have been translated into Finnish or into another language. It is commonly paired with nouns describing texts, films, or other media, to indicate translation status rather than origin. The term is distinct from käännös (the noun “translation”) and from kääntäminen (the act of translating); käännetty/käännetyn describe the resultant translated state of the noun.

Examples:

- käännetyn kirjan juoni

- käännetyn teoksen nimi

In summary, käännetyn is a grammatically required inflected form used to tag a noun as having been translated, reflecting Finnish’s system of participial adjectives and genitive expression.