keräämä

Keräämä is a Finnish term derived from the verb kerätä, meaning to collect or gather. In contemporary Finnish it functions mainly as a modifier describing material or items that have been collected or assembled. It is commonly found in written, especially academic or archival, contexts to indicate that something has been gathered for a specific purpose. For example, keräämä aineisto can be translated as “collected data/material.”

Grammatically, keräämä is used in attributive position before a noun, behaving like an adjective that signals the result or process of gathering. In inflection it follows the patterns of adjectives and participial forms, so phrases can be adapted to different cases, such as keräämän aineiston (the collected data) or keräymän kokoelman (the collected collection) in contexts where the noun itself is altered by case endings. While kerätty (collected) is the more common past passive form in everyday use, keräämä emphasizes the act or result of the collection within descriptions.

Usage and nuance: keräämä is particularly frequent in scientific, archival, museum, and data-management language, where it helps distinguish material that has been actively gathered for a study or cataloging effort from material that is simply present or stored. It can also appear in compound noun phrases describing sources, records, or items that were gathered to support research or documentation.

See also: kerätty, keräys, kerääjä, keräilijä. Notes: as a functional form, keräämä is best understood through its use in context rather than as a standalone dictionary entry; speakers may differ slightly in preference for keräämä versus kerätty depending on register and regional usage.