käyneitä

Käyneitä is a Finnish word formed as the plural partitive of the past participle of the verb käydä, meaning to go or to visit. It functions as an adjective when describing a noun and conveys that the described noun has experienced visiting or having been to a place. The form is used with nouns in the partitive case, often to indicate people or things that have completed a visit.

In Finnish, the past participle käynyt has a number of inflected forms; käyneitä is specifically the partitive plural form used to modify plural nouns in the partitive. This construction allows speakers to refer to groups or sets of items that have the experience of visiting, without specifying a completed action in the finite verb of the sentence. The meaning is experiential rather than merely temporal.

Käyneitä is commonly found in tourism, ethnographic, and market research language, where it helps distinguish between those who have visited a place and those who have not. It can also appear in descriptions of places, events, or objects that have been experienced by people. Because it is an adjectival form derived from a verb, käyneitä agrees with the noun it modifies in number and case, and it often appears in wider phrases like kaupunkiin käyneitä turisteja or käyneitä paikkoja, meaning “tourists who have visited the city” or “places that have been visited,” respectively.

See also: Finnish language, past participles, käydä (verb).