sovittujen

Sovittujen is a Finnish grammatical form that functions as the genitive plural of the past passive participle sovittu, derived from the verb sovita meaning to agree, settle, or arrange. In usage, sovittu serves as an adjective or participle meaning “agreed” or “settled,” and its form sovittujen marks the genitive plural of the noun it modifies.

In practice, sovittujen is most commonly seen in formal or legal language, describing things that have been agreed upon. For example, in phrases like sovittujen ehtojen mukaan (according to the agreed terms) or sovittujen asioiden hoitaminen (the handling of the agreed matters), the word appears before the noun and agrees with it in number and case. The genitive plural ending indicates that the noun it modifies is in genitive plural, while the accompanying noun conveys ownership or relation to the group described as “the agreed [things/terms/matters].”

Grammar-wise, Finnish participles function like adjectives and therefore decline to match the noun they accompany. Sovittu has separate forms for different cases and numbers; sovittujen specifically represents the genitive plural form. The corresponding partitive plural form is sovittuja, used in contexts like sovittuja asioita (agreed matters, as a part of the object).

Etymology traces sovittu to the verb sovita, with the usual past passive participle suffix -ttu, giving rise to related forms in other cases and numbers.