synnyttämä

Synnyttämä is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the verb synnyttää, meaning to give birth or to generate. In Finnish morphology, the suffix -ttama is used to form a participial-type modifier that attaches to a noun to indicate something produced or resulting from an action. As a result, synnyttämä can function as an attributive modifier meaning roughly “birth-giving” or “the birth-generating,” depending on context. The sense of this form is primarily technical and it is most often found in linguistic descriptions, grammars, or carefully written prose rather than in everyday speech.

In practice, contemporary Finnish tends to express related ideas with clearer alternatives such as synnyttäjä (the person who gives birth) or with the present participle synnyttävä (the one who gives birth), or with forms of syntyä that describe the event of birth. The -ttama form, including synnyttämä, is thus relatively rare and can sound archaic or stylistic outside specialized writing.

Etymology and usage notes: synnyttämä is built from the verb synnyttää plus the derivational suffix -ttama, a common pattern in Finnish for creating adjectives or noun-like modifiers that indicate produced or completed action. The exact interpretation of synnyttämä depends on the surrounding text and the noun it modifies, since Finnish participial derivatives often require context to convey precise meaning.

See also: synnyttää, syntyä, syntynyt.