pidätettyä

Pidätettyä is a grammatical form used in Finnish. It is the partitive singular form of pidätetty, a past participle derived from the verb pidättää, which means to detain or arrest. As a participle that functions like an adjective, pidätetty can describe a detained person or group, and pidätettyä is used when the associated noun is in the partitive case or when the reference is indefinite.

In singular, pidätettyä accompanies a noun in the partitive case, for example pidätettyä henkilöä, which translates roughly to “a detained person.” In plural, the corresponding partitive form is pidätettyjä, as in pidätettyjä henkilöitä, meaning “detained persons.” The form is commonly found in legal, police, and news language, where the status of individuals is described without presenting them as a definite, fully identified group.

Usage notes: The past participle pidätetty agrees with the noun it modifies in number and case, and the partitive form pidätettyä is chosen in contexts where the object is indefinite, partitive, or not fully specified. The term therefore functions similarly to other Finnish participial adjectives that describe state or action related to the noun, facilitating nuance in reporting or description of detentions.