Keveämmistöä

Keveämmistä is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective keveä, meaning lighter or easier. It is not a standalone dictionary entry; rather, it is the elative plural form of the comparative adjective keveämpi. In Finnish, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number and case, and the comparative form keveämpi can take the elative plural ending -mmistä when referring to a subset within a group. Thus keveämmistä is used with a following noun in the elative plural, as in keveämmistä vaihtoehdoista.

Morphology and usage

The base adjective keveä describes something light in weight or burden, and keveämpi forms the comparison “lighter/easier.” The elative plural form keveämmistä attaches to this comparative stem to express “from among the lighter ones” or “of the lighter ones” in contexts that compare within a larger set. Typical constructions involve a following noun in the elative plural, e.g., keveämmistä vaihtoehdoista (from the lighter options).

Examples

- Valitsimme keveämmistä vaihtoehdoista. (We chose from the lighter options.)

- Tutkimuksessa keskityttiin keveämmistä käsitettä koskettaviin esimerkkeihin. (The study focused on examples related to the lighter concepts.)

Notes

Keveämmistöä koskevat käyttötarkoitukset can refer to physical weight, effort, cost, complexity, or other measures of ease, depending on the noun it modifies. As a derived form, keveämmistä illustrates Finnish’s productive use of comparative adjectives combined with the elative plural to express selection within a subset.