Eristävistä

Eristävä is a Finnish adjective and present active participle meaning isolating, separating or insulating. The form eristävistä is the elative plural form of this word, used to modify plural nouns in the elative case (expressing “from …” or “of …” in that case). The root comes from eristää, meaning to isolate, separate, or insulate.

In practical use, eristävä describes things that create or provide isolation. It is common in technical and formal language, including construction, materials science, electrical engineering, and related disciplines. For example, eristävistä rakennusmateriaaleista valmistettuja kerroksia means layers made from insulating construction materials, i.e., materials with isolating properties. The term also appears in contexts such as health or epidemiology when discussing isolating measures (eristäviä toimenpiteitä) or in social sciences when referring to isolating factors (eristäviä tekijöitä).

Grammar and related forms: eristävä has several inflected forms to agree with a noun in genderless Finnish grammar. Singular forms include eristävä (nominative), eristävän (genitive), eristävää (partitive). Plural forms include eristävät (nominative), eristävien (genitive), eristäviä (partitive). The elative plural form, eristävistä, is used specifically with plural nouns in the elative case, as in eristävistä rakennusmateriaaleista.

See also: eristys, eristäminen, eristyksen materiaalit, eristävät toimenpiteet.

Eristävistä thus functions as a grammatical form that ties the sense of isolation or insulation to a plural noun within a sentence, reflecting both material properties and abstract concepts related to separation or quarantine.