pidättämän

Pidättämään is the to-infinitive form of the Finnish verb pidättää. The core meanings of pidättää include to detain or arrest (temporarily), to restrain or hold back (emotions, actions, information), and in some contexts to withhold. The word is used across contexts from law enforcement to everyday self-control, with nuance depending on the object and construction.

In its broader sense, pidättää can refer to detaining a person in custody, for example in police or judicial contexts, and to restraining or withholding actions or impulses, such as “pidättää itsensä” (to restrain oneself) or “pidättää tietoja” (to withhold information). The act of detaining or restraining is also expressed by related nouns such as pidätys (detention) and pidättäminen (the act of detaining or restraining). The reflexive form pidättäytyminen or the noun pidättäytyminen conveys abstaining or refraining, a related but distinct sense.

Etymologically, pidättämäinen and related forms derive from the same verb root pidättää, with Finnish inflectional patterns producing the infinitive pidättämään as one variant among the infinitive forms. In modern Finnish, pidättää is the more common base in everyday speech, while pidättämään appears primarily in formal, legal, or literary contexts or in grammars describing the full range of Finnish infinitives.

See also: pidättää, pidätys, pidättäminen, pidättäytyminen. The word is part of a semantic field that includes detention, restraint, and abstention, and its exact sense is guided by the surrounding words and the intended action.