merkittyä

Merkittyä is a Finnish grammatical form used as the partitive singular of the past passive participle merkitty, which means “marked” or “labeled.” In use, merkittyä denotes something that has undergone marking and is typically found in noun phrases where the head noun is in partitive or indefinite quantity. For example, merkittyä aluetta means “the marked area,” and merkittyä tekstiä means “the marked text.” The form illustrates the interplay between participles and the partitive case in Finnish: merkitty is the participle stem, and the suffix -ä yields the partitive singular merkittyä.

Formation and inflection: merkittyä is formed from the past passive participle merkitty, with the partitive singular suffix -ä. In other cases or numbers, the form changes to reflect Finnish inflection patterns (for example, merkittyjä tekstejä means “marked texts” in partitive plural).

Usage notes: Merkittyä occurs mainly in contexts describing documents, areas, labels, or other items that have been marked or designated. It is not a separate lexical item but a grammatical form functioning as an adjective-like modifier within a noun phrase.

Related terms: merkitä (to mark), merkitty (marked), partitive case, Finnish participles, adjective declension.

References: Finnish grammar resources on participles and the partitive case provide further description of merkittyä’s usage and inflection.