syötettyä

Syötettyä is a Finnish grammatical form: it is the partitive singular form of the past passive participle syötetty, which is derived from the verb syöttää meaning “to feed” or “to input.” In Finnish, participles can function as adjectives, describing that the modified noun has undergone the action indicated by the verb. Therefore, syötettyä denotes something that has been fed or supplied, or data that has been entered or provided, depending on the context.

The form syötettyä appears when the noun it modifies is in the partitive case, which is commonly used for indefinite objects, quantities, or contexts involving ongoing or non-finite actions. For example, syötettyä ruokaa means “food that has been fed/supplied,” and syötettyä dataa means “data that has been entered/ supplied.” The sense is determined by the surrounding context and the chosen noun.

Usage notes: syötettyä is typical in neutral, descriptive, or technical writing where one needs to specify that the item in question has already undergone feeding or input. In everyday language, simpler constructions using the active verb or other participial forms may be preferred, but syötettyä remains correct in formal or precise descriptions, such as agricultural reports or data-processing documentation.

Etymology: the form comes from syöttää, combined with the past passive participle suffix -etty, with the partitive ending -ä, yielding syötettyä in contexts requiring a partitive noun phrase.