käyttämien

Käyttämien is a Finnish grammatical form that functions as the genitive plural of the past participle käytetty or käyttöön liittyvä verbipartisiippi, used as an attributive modifier in noun phrases. In practice, it marks that the nouns it modifies are those “that have been used” and it appears in contexts where the entire noun phrase is in genitive or where the modifier itself is inflected for plural and genitive.

Morphology and usage

The base verb is käyttää, meaning “to use.” The participle used to describe something that has been used is käyetty or käyttämä in its participial form. When this participle acts as an adjective modifying a plural noun in a genitive construction, the modifier takes the genitive plural form käyttämien. The typical structure is käyttämien + [noun in genitive], as in käyttämien esineiden arvo, meaning “the value of the used items.” The word by itself signals a dependent, descriptive role and requires a following noun that is in a related case.

Examples

- käyttämien esineiden kunto = the condition of the used items (the items that have been used)

- käyttämien työkalujen lista = the list of the used tools

Relation to everyday language

Käyttämien is primarily a formal or written-language form. In everyday speech, Finns more commonly use forms like käytetyt or käytetty, depending on number and case. Käyttämien tends to appear in descriptive, technical, or legal contexts where precise attribution of “used” to a noun in a genitive construction is required.

See also

Finnish grammar, participles, attributive adjectives, genitive case.