kytetään

Kytetään is the present passive form of the Finnish verb kytkeä, meaning to connect, attach or switch on. As a passive form, kytetään signals that the action is performed on the subject by an agent that is not specified, such as a person, a device, or a system. It is commonly found in technical writing, operating instructions, manuals, and signs where the actor is either unknown or unimportant.

In practice, kytetään is used to describe that a device, circuit, or function is being activated or a connection is established. The exact meaning—“is connected” or “is switched on”—depends on the surrounding context and the passive construction. The form is one variant of the present passive; other variants such as kytketään are also used, depending on dialect, register, or sentence structure.

For learners, it is helpful to relate kytetty to related forms: kytketty meaning “connected” (past passive participle), and the verb kytkeä meaning “to connect” or “to switch on.” The noun forms include kytkentä (connection, circuit) and kytkin (switch/actuator). In Finnish, the passive does not mark person, so kytetään can refer to actions performed on many possible subjects, from a single device to a system as a whole.

See also: kytkeä, kytkentä, kytkin, kytketty.