-nut

• -ut, -nnut

From Proto-Finnic *-nut.

-nut (front vowel harmony variant -nyt, linguistic notation -nUt)

1. Used to form past active participle forms of verbs.

   Sadat sukset tehneenä tiedän, mistä puhun.

   Having made one hundred pairs of skis I know what I'm talking about.

   Sen tehneenä henkilönä hänen pitäisi tietää.

   As the person who made it, s/he should know.

   1. Used to form past indicative connegative forms of verbs.

      En ole tehnyt mitään.

      I have done nothing.

• (past active participle): Some inflected forms have specific uses:
  • genitive singular: used with verbs of reporting or observing to refer to someone having done an action according to that report or observation.

    Hänen sanotaan tehneen sen.

    S/he was said to have done it.

• When attached to consonant stems, the preceding consonant may either
  • if it is -l-, -r- or -s-, assimilate the -n-, as happens with verbs in the conjugation classes rohkaista (66), tulla (67), juosta (70) as well as the irregular verbs olla and seistä,
  • or, if it is -t-, it will instead be assimilated, resulting in an ending -nnut, as happens with verbs in the conjugation classes valita (69), vanheta (72), salata (73), katketa (74) and selvitä (75).
• An alternative analysis is that this ending has the variants -ut and -nnut, and which ending is used depends on the verb's conjugation. -nut is used with the verbs that end in a long (doubled) -a / -ä, diphthong or in -da / -dä', i.e. the verbs of the following conjugation classes:

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /-nut/, [-nud]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /-nut/, [-nud̥]

-nut (front vowel variant -nyt)

1. alternative form of -nt

• After the consonants -l, -r, -s the initial -n- of the suffix is assimilated:

  ‎ol- + ‎-nut → ‎ollut

  ‎pur- + ‎-nut → ‎purrut