säädettyjen

Säädettyjen is a Finnish grammatical form used in legal and regulatory language. It is the genitive plural of the past passive participle säädetty, which comes from the verb säätää, meaning to regulate, determine, or enact by law.

In practice, säädettyjen describes things that have been established or enacted by statutory or regulatory authority. The form typically accompanies a plural noun in the genitive case, for example säädettyjen lakien (of the enacted laws) or säädettyjen säädösten (of the regulations that have been laid down). It is most common in formal writing, such as legislation, official reports, or administrative texts.

Morphologically, säädetty is the past passive participle, serving as an adjective. Its genitive plural form is säädettyjen, used to modify a plural noun in genitive. Related forms include säädetty (nominative singular, “the enacted/regulated”); säädetyn (genitive singular, “of the enacted/regulated”); and säädettyjä (partitive plural, used when the enacted items are the object of a verb).

Usage notes: although powerful in legal discourse, säädettyjen is rarely encountered outside contexts discussing enacted laws or regulations. It should not be confused with similar terms such as säädelty, which can appear in different constructions and may carry slightly different nuances depending on the verb it derives from.

In summary, säädettyjen is a specialized Finnish inflection used to indicate “the enacted or regulated ones” in reference to multiple items, most often laws or regulations, within formal text.