käytetyssä

Käytetyssä is a Finnish word formed as the inessive singular form of the past passive participle käytyetty? No, actually käyty? Let me craft properly: Käytetty means used, and käytetyssä is the inessive form.

Käytetyssä is the inessive singular form of the past passive participle käytetty, which comes from the verb käyttää (to use). As an adjective or participial modifier, käytetty describes something that has been used or is second-hand. The inessive form käytetyssä is used when the noun it modifies is in the inessive case, for example in phrases like käytetyssä autossa (in the used car) or käytetyssä talossa (in the used house).

Morphology and function

Käytetty is a past passive participle acting as an adjective. It inflects like an adjective: käytetty (nominative), käytetyn (genitive), käytetyllä (inessive), käytettyyn (illative) and so on. Käytetyssä specifically marks the noun phrase in the inessive case, indicating location or state “in the used/second-hand [item].” This form is common in everyday language when describing second-hand goods or prior-use status.

Usage and examples

The term is widely used in consumer and marketplace language to indicate second-hand status: käytetty auto (a used car), käytetyt huonekalut (used furniture). In phrases with location, kuten käytetyssä autossa (in the used car) or käytetyissä tavaroissa (in the used items). It can also appear in formal contexts describing previously performed actions or conditions, though more common is its use in describing objects’ state.

Etymology and relation

Käytetty derives from the verb käyttää (to use) with the past passive participle suffix -tty. It functions grammatically as an adjective, readily combining with nouns in various cases to express that the noun has been used.