tietty
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The consonant-stem past passive participle of tietää (“to know”) (compare tiedetty (“known”), the standard vowel-stem form).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈtie̯tːy(ˣ)/, [ˈt̪ie̞̯t̪ːy(ʔ)]
- Rhymes: -ietːy
- Syllabification(key): tiet‧ty
- Hyphenation(key): tiet‧ty
Adjective
[edit]tietty (not comparable)
- certain, specific (having been determined but unspecified)
- Tietyt ihmiset ovat hyviä bridgen pelaajia. ― Certain people are good at playing bridge.
- specific, designated, agreed (as has been earlier agreed)
- (archaic) synonym of tiedetty (“known”)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of tietty (Kotus type 1*C/valo, tt–t gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | tietty | tietyt | |
| genitive | tietyn | tiettyjen | |
| partitive | tiettyä | tiettyjä | |
| illative | tiettyyn | tiettyihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | tietty | tietyt | |
| accusative | nom. | tietty | tietyt |
| gen. | tietyn | ||
| genitive | tietyn | tiettyjen | |
| partitive | tiettyä | tiettyjä | |
| inessive | tietyssä | tietyissä | |
| elative | tietystä | tietyistä | |
| illative | tiettyyn | tiettyihin | |
| adessive | tietyllä | tietyillä | |
| ablative | tietyltä | tietyiltä | |
| allative | tietylle | tietyille | |
| essive | tiettynä | tiettyinä | |
| translative | tietyksi | tietyiksi | |
| abessive | tietyttä | tietyittä | |
| instructive | — | tietyin | |
| comitative | — | tiettyine | |
Derived terms
[edit]Adverb
[edit]tietty
- (dialectal or colloquial) synonym of tietysti (“of course”)
Further reading
[edit]- “tietty”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023
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