syöty

Syöty is a Finnish word that functions as the past passive participle of the verb syödä (to eat). It means "eaten" or "consumed" and is used to describe something that has already been eaten. In Finnish, past passive participles like syöty can appear both predicatively (as part of a finite verb phrase) and attributively, where they behave like adjectives and agree with the noun they modify in number and case. For example, in the sentence Kakku on syöty, the cake has been eaten; in a noun phrase it can occur as syödyn leivän or syötyä leipää, reflecting different grammatical cases.

The form is derived from the verb stem with the participle suffix -ty. It is common in everyday language, especially in contexts relating to meals, leftovers, or food safety, and it can also take a figurative meaning in phrases that indicate something has been used up or completed in a broader sense.

As a basic reference, syöty is related to syödä (to eat) and to other participles such as syötävä (edible) but should not be confused with the present or future forms of the verb. The word is neutral and widely understood in standard Finnish.

See also: syödä, syötävä, edible.