sutinkamas

Sutinkamas is a Lithuanian present passive participle derived from the verb sutikti, which can mean to meet or to encounter. In standard usage it functions both as a verbal participle and as an adjective, describing something that is met, encountered, or found in a given context. It is commonly used in formal, descriptive, or scientific prose to indicate that a phenomenon, feature, or item occurs in practice or in the literature.

As a grammatical form, sutinkamas agrees with the noun it modifies in gender and number, similar to other participles and adjectives in Lithuanian. It can appear in both attributive (sutinkamas reiškinys, “an encountered phenomenon”) and predicative positions (reiškinys yra sutinkamas, “the phenomenon is encountered”). This versatility makes it a frequent choice in scholarly writing, reports, and encyclopedic entries when noting typical or observed elements.

Usage and semantics: sutinkamas emphasizes frequency, typicality, or presence in space or discourse. It is often used to describe what is commonly found in nature, in studies, or in texts, as in “šis reiškinys yra sutinkamas daugelyje šalių” (“this phenomenon is encountered in many countries”) or “sutinkamas pavyzdys literatūroje” (“an encountered example in literature”).

Etymology and related forms: the word shares its root with sutikti, and its meaning centers on encounter or occurrence. Related forms appear across gender and number as standard Lithuanian participles, enabling flexible expression across different syntactic contexts.

See also: sutikti, participles in Lithuanian, Lithuanian grammar.