pidennettyä

Pidennettyä is a Finnish grammatical form: the partitive singular of the past passive participle pidennetty, which derives from the verb pidentää and means “lengthened” or “extended.” In Finnish, participles can function as adjectives or in noun phrases, and when the modifying noun is in partitive, the participle takes the partitive ending -ä, yielding pidennettyä.

Usage and meaning: pidennettyä is common in formal or administrative language to describe something that has been extended without specifying the exact quantity. Typical phrases include pidennettyä aikaa (“extended time”) and pidennettyä määräaikaa (“extended deadline”). These forms appear in legal texts, contracts, and official communications, where an extension is described as a modifying noun in partitive.

Grammatical note: pidennetty is the base past participle; pidennettyä marks the object as partitive. In nominative contexts, the non‑partitive form pidennetty can be used, but when the object is indefinite or requires partitive, pidennettyä is preferred (for example, with aikaa or määräaikaa). The construction helps convey that the extension affects an amount of something rather than a clearly bounded unit.

See also: Finnish grammar, participles, pidentää.