Eteisistä

Eteisistä is the plural elative form of the Finnish noun eteinen, which means an entrance hall or vestibule. The word signals origin or source from multiple hallways within a building, such as a house, office, or public facility. In use, eteisistä answers questions of “from where?” in a plural sense, for example referring to multiple corridors or vestibules.

Grammatically, eteinen declines through Finnish cases, with eteiset as the nominative plural and eteisten as the genitive plural. The elative plural form, eteisistä, denotes movement or origin from the hallways. Like other Finnish noun forms, its exact case ending changes with number and grammatical role in a sentence. The suffix -istä specifically marks origin from multiple locations, and it works together with the plural form of the base noun.

In practical writing, eteisistä appears in descriptive or navigational contexts. It is common in architectural descriptions, property inventories, building maintenance notes, and journalistic or narrative passages that discuss corridors or entrances across several locations. It helps specify that something relates to or originates from more than one vestibule rather than a single space.

Examples:

- Melu kuului eteisistä, kun ovet avattiin. (A noise came from the hallways when the doors were opened.)

- Iltaisin eteisistä kuuluu kävijöiden askeleita. (In the evenings, footsteps from the hallways can be heard.)

See also: eteinen, Finnish grammar, cases.