pysäytetyt

Pysäytetyt is a Finnish term formed as the nominative plural of the past passive participle pysäytetty, derived from the verb pysäyttää (to stop or to arrest). It functions as an adjective meaning “stopped” or as a substantive referring to “the stopped ones” and is used when the noun it describes is understood from context or omitted.

As an adjective, pysäytetyt agrees with a following noun in number and case. Common usage includes phrases such as pysäytetyt autot (the stopped cars) or pysäytetyt henkilöt (the detained persons). In practice, the form is most natural when the noun is present; the bare form pysäytetyt can appear in headlines or lists where the noun is implied.

The nuance of meaning depends on context: it can denote physical cessation (a vehicle halted at a checkpoint) or legal or administrative detention (people who have been detained). It is distinct from other participles such as pysäyttävä (stopping in the sense of causing to stop) and from pysäytettyjä, which is the partitive plural form used with certain sentence structures.

Etymology and related forms: The word comes from the verb pysäyttää; pysäytetty is the past passive participle, and pysäytetyt is its nominative plurals. Related forms include pysäyttää (to stop), pysäyttämä (stopping as a participle), and pysäyttävä (causing to stop). The form is productive in Finnish for describing items or people that have undergone the action of stopping or detention.

See also: pysäyttää, pysäyttävä, pysäytys.