Hengestä

Hengestä is the elative singular form of the Finnish noun henki, which can mean spirit, soul, or breath. In Finnish grammar, the elative case (ending -stä) marks origin, source, or movement from something, and is used with substances, abstractions, or domains to express “from” or “out of.”

The noun henki has several related senses, including breath as a bodily function, a life force or spiritual essence, and, in religious or cultural contexts, a person’s spirit. The word forms a standard declension pattern in Finnish: henki (nominative), hengen (genitive), henkeä (partitive), hengessä (inessive), and hengestä (elative).

Hengestä is typically encountered in literary, ceremonial, or metaphorical language rather than everyday speech. Its use tends to emphasize origin, source, or emergence from a non-physical or abstract domain, such as a spiritual or intangible source, rather than a concrete material one.

Related forms include henkinen, the adjective meaning mental or spiritual, and various derivations centered on the root henki. The term is part of a standard Finnic noun paradigm, and its elative form demonstrates how Finnish conveys “out of” or “from” with nouns denoting life, spirit, or breath.

See also: henki; Finnish grammar; elative case.