käyttäneet

Käyttäneet is the plural past active participle of the Finnish verb käyttää (to use). It expresses that the subject has completed the action of using something and is used in contexts connected to other clauses. In English it can correspond to have used, or to “those who have used,” depending on the sentence structure.

Grammatical notes: Finnish forms the perfect with the auxiliary olla and the past active participle. The form käyttäneet is the plural form of the past active participle, used with plural subjects. The singular past active participle is käyttänyt. The related passive past participle is käytetty, meaning “used” in a passive sense.

Typical usage:

- He ovat käyttäneet ohjelmaa. They have used the program.

- Tutkijat, käyttäneet uusinta dataa, julkaisevat tulokset. The researchers, who have used the latest data, publish the results.

- Käyttäneet appears in non-finite constructions in relative clauses or in headlines and lists to indicate completed action by multiple subjects.

Translations and nuance: Käyttäneet mainly functions as a non-finite form in relative clauses or as part of ellipsed phrases, indicating that several subjects have completed the action of using something. It is not normally used as a stand-alone predicate without an auxiliary verb in standard prose.

See also: käyttö (use), käytetty (used, passive past participle), käyttäjä (user). Etymology: derived from käyttää with the standard past active participle suffixes, reflecting Finnish participle formation patterns.