kerättyjen

Kerättyjen is a Finnish grammatical form. It is the genitive plural of the past passive participle kerätty, which means “collected” and is derived from the verb kerätä “to collect.” As a participial adjective, kerättyjen agrees in number and case with the noun it modifies, and it appears in noun phrases whose head noun is in the genitive plural. The form is created by adding the genitive plural suffix -jen to kerätty.

Usage of kerättyjen occurs in contexts where something is described as having been gathered or accumulated. It typically precedes a noun in genitive plural, forming phrases such as kerättyjen kirjojen kansi (the cover of the collected books) or kerättyjen varojen käyttö (the use of the collected funds). These phrases are common in formal writing, reports, and administrative or legal texts, but may also appear in general prose.

Notes: kerättyjen often signals a completed or compiled set rather than an ongoing process. Its nuance can emphasize that items have already been gathered and are now being referred to as a group. In sentences, kerättyjen can interact with other elements of a noun phrase to indicate possession, quantity, or quality related to the collected items.

Related forms include kerätty (the basic masculine singular nominative form, “collected”), kerätyn (singular genitive), and kerätyt (plural nominative). Together, these forms illustrate how Finnish uses participial adjectives to describe nouns across different cases and numbers in a compact way.