sulattuneet

Sulattuneet is a Finnish adjective meaning melted, describing substances that have been brought to a liquid or semi-liquid state by heat or chemical action. The form is plural; the singular form is sulattunut. The word is used in neutral, descriptive contexts and appears in technical writing as well as everyday language.

In practice, sulattuneet can refer to a wide range of materials. In cooking and food processing, it describes fats, sugars, or other solids that have melted under heat. In metallurgy and materials science, it denotes metals, alloys, or polymers that have been heated to a liquid state. In geology, it may be used to describe rocks that have melted to form magma or to discuss partial melting processes. The term is typically used attributively (sulattuneet juustot, sulattuneet metalliseokset) or predicatively (aineet ovat sulattuneet).

Notes: Finnish has other related forms, such as sulanut (melted, intransitive sense) and sulattunut (a more general past participle form). The choice among sulanut, sulattunut, sulattuneet depends on number and sentence structure. In dictionaries, sulattuneet is listed as the plural past participle of sulattaa, used to indicate that the material has undergone melting.