muotoiltuja

Muotoiltuja is a Finnish adjective form that comes from the verb muotoilla, meaning to format, design, or shape. It denotes that something has been formatted or designed and is used to describe items that have undergone this process. In Finnish, past passive participles can modify nouns, and muotoiltuja specifically appears in plural when the modified noun is in a partitive or otherwise indefinite form.

Grammatical notes: muotoiltu is the singular past passive participle, while muotoiltuja is its plural form used with nouns in partitive or similar contexts. As an attributive modifier, it functions like an adjective and agrees with the noun it describes. It does not stand alone as a noun and requires a noun to complete the phrase, for example, muotoiltuja tekstejä (formatted texts) or muotoiltuja kuvia (formatted images).

Contexts and usage: muotoiltuja is common in publishing, documentation, software localization, and content creation to indicate that the material has been formatted according to certain rules or styles. It can describe texts, images, tables, or other material that has undergone formatting. The nuance emphasizes the resulting formatted state rather than the action of formatting itself.

See also: muotoilla, muotoilu, Finnish participial adjectives, and Finnish grammar on participles and the partitive case.