merkittyinä

Merkittyinä is a Finnish grammatical form meaning “as marked” or “in the marked state.” It is the essive plural form of the past passive participle merkitty, which derives from the verb merkitä “to mark.” The form merkittyinä is used to describe multiple items that have already been marked or annotated in some way. In the singular, the corresponding form is merkittynä.

Grammatical usage and function often involve predication with the verb olla (to be) to state the status of a group, or it can appear as a predicative complement following a noun. Examples include: Kuvat ovat merkittyinä tunnisteilla (The images are marked with tags). Kielemme on merkittyinä eri luokkiin (the items are marked into different classes). This form is common in formal, technical, or methodological Finnish, especially in contexts involving data labeling, cataloging, or archiving, where objects are tagged or annotated with metadata.

Etymology and morphology: merkittyinä combines the participle merkitty (marked) with the essive plural ending -inä, signaling “as marked” for a plural subject. Related forms include merkittynä (singular essive) and the base verb merkitä.

See also: Finnish grammar, essive case, past passive participles, data annotation, metadata.