käsittelemien

Käsittelemien is a Finnish grammatical form, the genitive plural of the active past participle käsittelemä, which comes from the verb käsitellä meaning "to handle" or "to deal with." The participle denotes that an actor has carried out the action of handling or dealing with something. In use, käsittelemien functions as a premodifier within noun phrases to indicate that the nouns it modifies pertain to entities that have performed the handling or dealing described.

Formation and morphology: The stem is käsittely-, built from the verb stem käsitellä. The active past participle adds the morpheme -m-, and the genitive plural ending is -ien, yielding käsittelemien. The corresponding nominative singular active past participle is käsittelemä, while the passive past participle is käsitelty.

Usage notes: Käsittelemien is common in formal and written Finnish, particularly in administrative, legal, or technical texts where it is important to specify who performed the handling or dealing. It is distinct from käsitelty, the passive form meaning "that has been handled/processed," which does not foreground the actor.

Examples:

- Käsittelemien hakemusten määrä on kasvanut. (The number of applications that have been dealt with has increased.)

- Raportissa viitataan käsittelemien asioiden hoitoon ja ratkaisemiseen liittyviin toimenpiteisiin. (The report references actions related to the handling and resolution of matters that have been dealt with.)

Käsittelemien thus marks the subjects or items that performed the handling, serving as a precise, formal way to describe actions and agents in Finnish prose.