pidetystä

Pidetystä is a Finnish linguistic form derived from the verb pidättää, meaning to detain or to hold in custody. It represents a past-participle stem (pidätetty) inflected to indicate relation to a detained person or thing. In formal Finnish, pidetystä commonly appears in noun phrases to express origin, association, or attribution to someone who has been detained.

Usage and meaning

Pidetystä functions as a modifier in phrases where the source or subject is a detained person. It is most often encountered in legal, administrative, or journalistic contexts. Typical constructions involve combinations with a following noun in the genitive or elative, such as pidetystä henkilöstä or pidetystä todistajasta, to convey meanings like “from the detained person” or “of the detained person.” The form helps specify that information, statements, or actions originate from or concern a person in custody.

Examples

- Pidetystä henkilöstä annettu lausunto means “a statement given by the detained person.”

- Pidetystä todistajasta ei ollut uutta tietoa translates as “there was no new information from the detained witness.”

Notes

Pidetystä is one of several inflected forms of pidätetty and should be distinguished from related terms such as pidätys (detention) or pidättäminen (the act of detaining). Its exact case usage depends on the syntactic role of the linked noun in a sentence.

See also

Pidätys, pidättää, pidätetty, pidättäminen.