valutettua

Valutettu is a Finnish past participle form derived from the verb valuttaa, which means to drain, pour off, or let liquid flow out. As an adjective, valutettu describes a substance from which liquid has been removed. In practice, it is used to indicate that a liquid component has been drained away during preparation or processing.

The form valutettua is the partitive inflection of the participle, used when the drained liquid is the object of the sentence. For example, in phrases like valutettua vettä or valutettua maitoa, the meaning is that the liquid in question has been drained from the substance. In everyday cooking and food production, valutettu is common in descriptions of steps such as draining vegetables, rinsing and draining dairy products, or removing excess liquid from canned goods.

In diagnosis or instruction contexts, valutettu may appear in directions such as “valutettu neste” (drained liquid) to specify what has been removed. The term is primarily culinary and industrial, and is not a general synonym for other Finnish senses of “value” or money. A potential source of confusion is that Finnish has related words such as valuta or valuutta that pertain to currency, but valutettu itself refers to draining liquids, not money.

See also: valuttaa, valuutta, valuta (currency-related terms)