syöttämää

Syöttämä is a Finnish word formed from the verb syöttää, meaning to feed or to input. It functions as a past active participle and is used as an attributive adjective to indicate that something has been fed, supplied, or entered. In practice, syöttämä appears mainly in technical or formal language to describe data or items that have been entered into a system, such as syöttämä tieto (input data) or syöttämä arvo (input value).

Grammatically, syöttämä is part of the class of Finnish participial adjectives created with the -mä/-mä form, and it typically precedes the noun it modifies. It is common in data processing, software, and documentation to refer to information that has already been provided to a program or database. The meaning is close to “inputted” or “fed” in English, depending on the context.

There is also a standard passive past participle in Finnish for similar meaning, syötetty, which emphasizes the result of the action without specifying the agent. The choice between syöttämä and syötetty can reflect nuance: syöttämä highlights the state of having been supplied, while syötetty often centers on the completed action itself.

Usage notes: syöttämä tends to occur in written or technical contexts and may sound less common in casual speech, where speakers might simply say “syötetty tieto” or rephrase to avoid the participial form. Nonetheless, syöttämä remains a concise and productive way to describe information or items that have already been entered.