Abstrakteista

Abstrakteista is the elative plural form of the Finnish noun abstrakti, meaning “from abstracts” or “from the abstract(s).” Abstrakti can denote a short summary of a research article (an abstract) or, more generally, something abstract in art or thought. The elative plural abstrakteista is used when the source of information or material is described as coming from abstracts, for example when data are derived from the abstracts of several articles.

In Finnish, nouns are declined across cases; abstrakti has forms such as abstrakti (nominative singular), abstraktit (nominative plural), abstraktien (genitive plural), abstrakteja (partitive plural), and abstrakteista (elative plural). Phrases like abstrakteista can appear in sentences such as: “Tietoja on poimittu abstrakteista useista artikkeleista,” meaning “Information has been drawn from the abstracts of several articles.”

The term is primarily found in academic writing or discussions about literature reviews and meta-analyses. It is less common in everyday speech, but it remains a standard inflectional form in Finnish. Etymology: abstrakti is a loanword from English "abstract" (ultimately from Latin abstractus) and has been adapted to Finnish phonology and morphology.