värittämänä

Värittämänä is a Finnish non-finite verb form derived from the verb värittää, meaning to color or tint. It functions as a participial form that expresses a state of having been colored, typically used with the copula olla to describe something that is in a colored state. In practice, värittämänä behaves like an essive-style predicative form: for example, Kuvat olivat värittämänä, which can be translated as “The pictures were colored.”

Morphologically, värittämänä is formed from the past passive participle stem of värittää, combined with the essive/translative suffix -nä, producing a non-finite clause form. Related forms include värittämä (colored) and värittäminen (coloring). Other cognate terms are väri (color) and värittäminen, the process of coloring.

Usage notes: Värittämänä is most common in descriptive, scholarly, or technical prose—such as art criticism, restoration reports, or historical descriptions of printed material—where precise descriptions of appearance are required. It is less common in everyday speech, where simpler adjectives like värittynyt or väritön may be preferred.

Examples are typically found in contexts discussing appearance, restoration status, or stylistic choices in images or documents. The form helps convey that something has already undergone coloring or tinting, rather than describing an ongoing action.

See also: väri, värittäminen, värittävä, värittää.