piirtämään

Piirtämän is a Finnish linguistic form derived from the verb piirtää, meaning to draw. It is not a standalone lexical entry but a stem that appears in certain nominalized, attributive constructions built from the past active participle piirtämä. In practice, piirtämän is most visible in phrases that refer to a drawing or image that someone has created.

Morphology and usage

Piirtämä denotes something drawn. When possessive suffixes are added to this participle, the resulting forms—such as piirtämänsä and piirtämäni—are used to express ownership or the subject who performed the drawing. For example, piirtämänsä kuva means “the drawing he drew,” while piirtämäni kuva means “the drawing I drew.” The form piirtämänsä and related variants function as prenominal modifiers in noun phrases and appear frequently in written Finnish, especially in relative clauses or in expressions that describe the source of a drawing.

Examples

- Hän esitteli piirtämänsä kuvan. (He presented the drawing that he drew.)

- Piirtämäni kartta osoitti reitin selvästi. (The map I drew showed the route clearly.)

Notes

Because piirtämän is an inflected stem rather than a standalone word, it is primarily encountered as part of compounds with possessive suffixes. In everyday speech, speakers often replace these constructions with clearer relative clauses, such as “kuva, jonka piirsin,” but the piirtämän form remains common in literary and formal Finnish.

See also

piirtää, piirtäminen, piirustus, sanastot: Finnish participles and noun phrases.