vaivautuneen

Vaivautuneen is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the verb vaivautua, meaning to trouble oneself or to be bothered. It is the genitive singular form of the past participle vaivautunut, which functions as an adjective describing someone who has been inconvenienced or distressed by something. In practice, vaivautuneen occurs in noun phrases in which the participle describes or modifies another noun, for example vaivautuneen henkilön mielipide (the opinion of the person who has been bothered) or vaivautuneen näköinen ilme (a bothered-looking expression). It is not typically used as an independent lexeme; rather, it is a grammatical form of the participle.

Usage notes: vaivautuneen appears mainly in formal or written Finnish when the participle is used attributively in genitive constructions. In everyday speech, speakers commonly use vaivautua or vaivautunut in more direct phrases, such as en halua vaivautua (I don’t want to trouble/annoy you) or vaivautunut olo (a bothered feeling), or replace the construction with simpler expressions.

Etymology and forms: vaivautua is built from vaiva (burden, trouble) plus the reflexive/automatized suffix -utua. The past participle is vaivautunut, whose genitive singular form is vaivautuneen. Other participial and adjectival forms follow standard Finnish participle inflection, enabling a range of attributive and predicative uses.

See also: vaivautua, vaivautunut, Finnish participles, Finnish grammar.