Kengistä

Kengistä is Finnish grammar form meaning “from the shoes.” It is the elative plural of the noun kengät (shoes) and is used to indicate origin, source, or content that comes from multiple shoes. In Finnish, the elative plural suffix is typically -ista/-istä, so kengät in the elative plural becomes kengistä.

Grammatical use and meaning

Kengistä signals that something originates or comes out of the shoes, rather than being inside or possessed by them. This form can describe material, residue, or other content associated with more than one pair of footwear. Because Finnish has no articles, the exact sense is determined by context and other elements in the sentence.

Common contexts

- Describing material or residue from footwear, such as dirt, sand, or moisture: “Kengistä löytyi hiekkaa” (Sand was found from the shoes).

- Indicating content transferred from footwear, for example after removing shoes: “Kengistä tuli märkä lattialle” (Water came from the shoes to the floor).

- Discussing origin in procedures or events involving multiple shoes: “Kengistä seurasi sotkua koko käytävän pituudelta” (Mess followed from the shoes along the length of the corridor).

Notes

Kengistä, like other elative plurals, is a standard part of Finnish noun inflection and is used in both spoken and written language. The form contrasts with other case forms such as the nominative kengät, genitive kengien, or partitive kenkä/kenkiä, which convey different grammatical relations.

See also

Finnish grammar, noun cases, elative case, plural forms.