sisältämien

Sisältämien is a Finnish grammatical form that arises from the verb sisältää, meaning “to contain.” It functions as a participial adjective meaning contained or included, and it is used with plural nouns in a genitive-like construction to indicate that those items are contained within something else. In practice, it appears most often in formal or technical contexts, such as product labeling, packaging text, and official documents.

A typical usage is in phrases describing what a product or document contains. For example: pakkauksen sisältämien ainesosien luettelo, meaning “the list of ingredients contained in the package.” Another common pattern is tuotteen sisältämien aineiden määrät, or “the amounts of substances contained in the product.” In such phrases, sisältämien works together with a following noun in genitive to specify the contained items.

Relation to other forms: sisältämien is part of a family of participial adjectives derived from sisältää. Related forms include sisältävä (containing), sisältänyt/ sisältäneet (contained), and other participial derivatives used to describe relationships of containment. The exact form may vary with number and case depending on syntactic role, but the core meaning remains “contained” or “included.”

Usage notes: sisältämien is relatively common in regulatory, technical, and professional writing. In everyday language, speakers may prefer simpler constructions such as tuotteessa olevat ainesosat (the ingredients in the product) or pakkauksen sisältö (the contents of the package).

See also: Finnish participles, noun phrases with genitive, product labeling terminology, grammar of Finnish adjectives.