pienennetty

Pienennetty is a Finnish adjective and participial form meaning that something has been reduced in size, extent, or scope. It is the past passive participle of pienentää, the verb meaning to reduce, and it functions as an attributive or predicative modifier in a sentence. In practice, it describes objects, versions, or measurements that are smaller than the original.

Common contexts for the term include visual materials, documents, and technical descriptions. For example, pienennetty kuva refers to a reduced-size image, pienennetty kartta to a map drawn to a smaller scale, and pienennetty versio to a shortened or condensed version of a document. The phrase can also describe reduced costs, scope, or capacity, such as pienennetty budjetti or pienennetty projektin laajuus, though in budgeting or planning contexts other formulations might be used as well. The word is used both attributively (pienennetty kuva) and predicatively (Kuva on pienennetty).

Morphology and usage notes: pienennetty declines like an adjective and is used with Finnish noun cases. Examples include pienennetyn kuvan laatu (the quality of the reduced image) and pienennettyä kuvaa (partitive form). Etymology-wise, pienennetty is formed from pienentää (“to reduce”) plus the participial suffix -tty, yielding a term that conveys that reduction has already taken place. Related terms include suurennettu (“enlarged”) and pienennys or pienennysmenetelmä (reduction/reduction method).