työnnettiin

Työnnettiin is a Finnish word that serves as the passive past tense form of the verb "työntää," which means "to push." As a passive form, "työnnettiin" indicates that an action of pushing was performed on a subject, rather than by it. The subject is the recipient of the pushing action.

For example, in the sentence "Ovi työnnettiin auki" (The door was pushed open), "ovi" (door) is the subject that underwent the action of being pushed. The agent who performed the pushing is either unstated or implied by the context. This passive construction is commonly used in Finnish to describe situations where the focus is on the event or the object affected, rather than on the person or thing doing the pushing.

The structure "työnnettiin" is a past passive participle combined with the third-person singular past tense of the auxiliary verb "olla" (to be), although in common usage, the auxiliary verb is often omitted in the passive past. This grammatical feature is characteristic of Finnish, where passive constructions are prevalent. It can be used in various contexts, from describing physical actions to more abstract concepts where something is "pushed" or "propelled" in a figurative sense.