tyhjennettyään

The Finnish word "tyhjennettyään" is the past active participle in the translative case. It is formed from the verb "tyhjentää," which means "to empty." The suffix "-ttyään" indicates that the action of emptying has been completed by the subject, and the translative case suffix "-än" signifies "after having done so" or "upon having done so."

Therefore, "tyhjennettyään" literally translates to "after having emptied it/them" or "upon emptying it/them." It is used to connect two clauses where the first clause describes an action performed by the subject, and the second clause describes a subsequent action. For example, "Huoneen tyhjennettyään hän lähti" translates to "After having emptied the room, he left."

This grammatical form is common in Finnish for expressing sequential actions where the first action is a prerequisite for the second. It is a concise way to link events without using separate conjunctions like "kun" (when) or "sen jälkeen kun" (after). The word itself is a single morphological unit, encapsulating both the verb stem, the past active participle marker, and the case ending. Understanding the components of "tyhjennettyään" helps in deciphering the temporal relationship between actions in Finnish sentences.