kirjoitettussa

Kirjoitettussa is a Finnish word form that belongs to the passive past participle of the verb kirjoittaa, meaning to write. The base participle is kirjoitettu, and kirjoitettussa appears when the participle is inflected for the inessive case, indicating a location or state “in the written form/text.” In Finnish, participles can function like adjectives or noun modifiers, so kirjoitettussa often describes a noun related to writing or a written state.

Morphology and common forms

The participle kirjoitettu behaves like an adjective and is declined through the typical Finnish case system. The partitive form of the participle is kirjoitettua (for example, kirjoitettua tekstiä = written text [partitive object]). The inessive form is kirjoitetussa (as in kirjoitetussa tekstissä = in the written text). Other related forms include kirjoitetun (genitive) and, as with many Finnish adjectives, the nominative form kirjoitettu. These forms allow the participle to modify nouns across various cases without changing its core meaning: “written” or “in writing.”

Usage and examples

Kirjoitettua and its variants appear in contexts involving writing, documents, or textual states. Examples: Hän luki kirjoitettua tekstiä. (He read written text.) Kirjoitettua tekstiä käytettiin esseessä. (Written text was used in the essay.) In phrase structure, kirjoitettua tekstiä commonly functions as a partitive object, while kirjoitetussa muodossa expresses “in the written form.” The forms provide nuance about definiteness and grammatical case, not a change in the basic meaning of “written.”

Summary

Kirjoitettussa is the inessive singular form of the passive past participle kerran derived from kirjoittaa. It serves as an adjective-like form to indicate something that has been written, with related forms covering the broader case system to fit different syntactic roles.