kirjoitetuille

Kirjoitetuille is a Finnish inflected form that serves as the allative plural of the past participle kirjoitettu, meaning written. In Finnish, adjectives and participles decline for number and case, and the allative marks direction toward or for something. Thus kirjoitetuille functions as “to the written ones” or “for the written ones” when referring to a group described by the property of being written.

Etymology and form: The base adjective is kirjoitettu (“written/recorded”), derived from the verb kirjoittaa (“to write”). The allative plural is formed from the stem kirjoitettu- with the allative suffix -lle and the plural agreement that matches the noun phrase it accompanies. Related forms include kirjoitetut (nominative plural), kirjoitettujen (genitive plural), and the singular allative kirjoitetulle.

Usage: Kirjoitetuille is relatively rare in everyday speech and writing. It appears primarily in linguistic descriptions of Finnish morphology and in contexts where an explicit reference to a class described as “written” is needed, such as discussions of written materials or texts as the target of an action. In ordinary Finnish, speakers are more likely to rephrase for clarity, for example by using a noun such as asiakirjat (documents) and a more common case form, like asiakirjoille (to the documents), or by using kirjoitettu as an attributive adjective without the allative.

See also: Finnish grammar; Finnish noun cases; allative case; past participles.